Definition of Ready

 

TL;DR

• Definition of Ready Definition (DoR)
  • A checklist of conditions that must be true before a product backlog item is considered ready to pull into a sprint during sprint planning.
  • The criteria applied to every Product Story
• Never pull anything into a sprint that is not ready, and never let anything out of the sprint that is not done.
• Definition of Ready, defines story “ready state”; needs to meet some criteria before it can be picked up for a sprint.
• Does not mean story is 100% defined with zero unknowns
• Follow a checklist

Creating My First PyPI Package

In my efforts to gulp the cool-aid on all things Python, this weekend I uploaded my first package to PyPI. What is PyPI you ask? When you use pip, the default repository used is PyPI. From the official website:

PyPI — the Python Package Index
The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python programming language.

Utilizing OpenShift To Deploy a Web Application

Early in my career as a web developer, I wanted to be able to demo my personal projects. In the last few years I found a platform as a service (PaaS) provider called OpenShift (https://www.openshift.com/).

For a web developer, creating the application and running it locally tends to be easy. The tricky part comes in when you want to show others what you have done! OpenShift provides a 100% free solution to this problem.

https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing/plan-comparison

This blog post will walk a user from account creation through application deployment in a step by step process.

Client Side Web Project – Pt 2

17 Feb, 2015

Client Side Web Project – Pt 1

This week I started to incorporate AngularJS into the Web Project I have been working on. AngularJS can be classified as a “Single Page Application (SPA) Framework”.  CodeSchool described it as a client-side JavaScript Framework for adding interactivity to HTML.

https://angularjs.org/

I am new to this technology, so I started with a tutorial from CodeSchool and watched an hour long YouTube video.

https://www.codeschool.com/courses/shaping-up-with-angular-js

AngularJs Fundamentals in 60-ish Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MHigUZKEM

Identifying a Senior Engineer

Today I participated in the interview process for a candidate senior developer position at OnShift. We are a Python shop, but finding highly experienced developers with Python experience is not necessarily easy in the Cleveland Ohio area.

It’s my opinion that years of experience and education are not the sole indicators. They are merely data points in a much larger picture. I have met many highly educated engineers that can’t come up with practical solutions to simple problems. On the other hand, I have met individuals with many years of experience, but only know one way to do everything.

So, what do I look for?

Emails – Feature Toggles

Dean & Bryce,

I came across an interesting article at work and wanted to share it with you guys.

http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

The article through a logical progression in the complexity and usage of such toggles for cohort, A/B testing, and releasing feature.

What is Hadoop?

10 Feb, 2015

I have been fortunate enough to land a job at a company called Explorys. I have been working here since October of last year (2014). The phrase, “Unlocking the power of BIG DATA”, is a common company mantra. Explorys is a company that takes in various hospital organizations patient data (such as the Cleveland Clinic) from their various medical management systems, normalizes the data into a single system of records, and sells it back to the organization. It is a brilliant model. Basically, we ingest and sell hospital data back to the customer.

Emails – Engineering Standards

I tend to prefer the term “best practice” over the word standard… when people see the word standard they immediately associate a mentality of rigidness and lack of innovation.

Avoiding Interruptions

A work colleague of mine linked me an article today that is a quick read but is very insightful on how interruptions impact a developer’s day.

Why Developer’s Hate Being Interrupted

New Job, New Technolgies

12 Nov, 2014

A few weeks ago my family and I moved back to Ohio from Florida. I find myself questioning this decision.

Along with the move comes a new job opportunity at a company called Explorys. https://www.explorys.com/home

Already in four shorts weeks I am adding an arsenal of new technologies to my tool kit.

• Ruby/Rails
• Hadoop/Hbase
• Maven
• Git
• Java Technologies: JOOQ and Dependency Injection via CDI