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Community Comment: Part 35 - Despite naysayers, benchmarking can be valuable

* Don't repeat a quote before assessing it * Galanakis incorrect about unexecuted code * Execution required for relative performance * Benchmarking valuable despite naysayers The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Chief Challenge Writer at Coding Challenges: Some advice just never gets old. “Controlling complexity is the

Community Comment: Part 28 - Technical debt is actually a subset of organizational debt

* Not all technical debt is the same * Discussion with purported CTOs * Technical debt is subset of organizational debt * Business + technology = "our business" The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Fractional CTO and "Engineering Management Expert": "Technical debt? Is that a joke?

Community Comment: Part 25 - When considering the choice between waterfall and agile methodologies, keep product life cycle in mind

* Waterfall versus various agile claims * Software engineering methodologies * Poor methodologies assume product lifespan * Lifespan may be too short to see success The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Owner at Software Delivery Firm: What does this say to you? #agile #waterfall #softwaredevelopment #iterativedevelopment #incrementaldevelopment Gfesser: The

Community Comment: Part 17 - Implementing solutions is more important than estimating build effort

* Implementing > Estimating * Fine-grained software effort confidence level estimates meaningless * As with story point estimates, categories better * Breaking down problems decreases novelty, increases predictability The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Enterprise Agile Strategist at Cloud Content Management Firm: Q: How do I get accurate estimates?

Media Query Source: Part 29 CMSWire (US digital magazine)Digital transformation change management"Digital transformation" needs to be definedPlanning

My responses ended up being included in an article at CMSWire (May 11, 2018) entitled "Change Management for Digital Transformation". Above image from cited article. (No transcript available for the verbal responses I provided to a media outlet on May 2, 2018.) See all of my responses to

Media Query Source: Part 25 Unite.AI (US digital magazine)Q&A with CEO of Unite.AIMy career in software engineering & dataTooling has converged betwee

My responses ended up being included in the Interview Series at Unite.AI (April 21, 2020), a San Francisco based media firm "designed to offer detailed analysis and news on the latest advancements in machine learning and AI technology", including all things data. In this case, the entire

Media Query Source: Part 19 AngelList Talent (US digital magazine)Scrum methodology primerProducts evolve, so no deadlines or rigid plansStory points

My responses ended up being included in an article at AngelList (November 6, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The responses I provided to a media outlet on September 17, 2019, and the journalist's follow up

New Book Review: "High Performance Spark"

New book review for High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark, by Holden Karau and Rachel Warren, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: The authors state in their preface that "this book is intended for those who have some working knowledge of Spark, and may

Media Query Source: Part 15 The Modern S/W Factory Hub (CA Tech blog)Debunking 3 myths of DevOpsDevOps means dev & operations not separateReasons to a

My responses ended up being included in an article at "The Modern Software Factory Hub" by CA Technologies (October 23, 2018). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Note that Broadcom completed the acquisition of CA Technologies about 3 weeks after this article

Media Query Source: Part 14

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 9, 2018: Media: Customer-centricity, customer journeys, data as an asset. In a lot of cases, it's just lip service. The real reason companies aren't keeping their promises traces back to the data they have and don&