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Event storming is a fast, lightweight group modeling technique you can use to accelerate developer productivity and facilitate domain-driven design.
Steven A. Lowe
Oct 15, 2015
An introduction to event storming: The easy way to achieve domain-driven design
Fast and furious
Real world metrics
Software metrics don't matter unless you tie them to business goals. Learn what to measure, and how to use the results to test a business value...
Steven A. Lowe
Jun 6, 2016
9 metrics that can make a difference to today’s software development teams
Measure what matters!
Align your organization's direction
If you want to kill a tree, saw it into a pile of logs. If you want to kill a product, saw it into a pile of projects.
Steven A. Lowe
Sep 25, 2017
Project management: A surefire way to kill your software product
Be product-centric
Learn the concepts of domain-driven design and put them to good use right away with this crash course on DDD philosophy and strategy.
Steven A. Lowe
Jul 19, 2016
Get your feet wet with domain-driven design: 3 guiding principles
DDD 101
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Steven Lowe gathers the best advice from development pros across the web on how to code faster.
Steven A. Lowe
Oct 11, 2016
Code faster: 53 tips from the pros
Go with the flow
Writing maintainable code that makes it as easy as possible for others is no fun. Use these worst practices to write zombie code that no one dares...
Steven A. Lowe
Sep 15, 2015
Zombie code: When maintainability goes out the window
Undead apps
Scrum has become a bloated, corrupted, fragile, anti-agile monster loathed by developers worldwide.
Steven A. Lowe
Jun 26, 2019
Why Scrum sucks
It ain't agile
Use domain-driven design to intentionally model your business domain into your code. Here's how to discover your model, and keep you code aligned...
Steven A. Lowe
Jan 4, 2016
Why you need domain-driven design (even though you think you don't)
On the contrary
Want to know where you stand? Learn how to use salary survey data effectively to help chart your career and identify new skills to acquire.
Steven A. Lowe
Nov 6, 2015
How to use software engineer salary data to boost your career
Career by the numbers
Ansible is one of the most beginner-friendly configuration management tools. It's a great tool to learn DevOps through automated setups and VM...
Steven A. Lowe
Mar 15, 2016
Learning DevOps: Automated setup and cloud VM provisioning with Ansible
First place to start
Software-quality metrics are interesting, but none of them matter if users hate your software and the business loses money. Read why the old...
Steven A. Lowe
Jun 1, 2016
Why metrics don't matter in software development (unless you pair them with business goals)
Measuring cyclomatic complexity? Me neither
The key to finding the
With hundreds of thousands of software engineer jobs available online, and more posted every hour, how do you find the perfect job for you?
Steven A. Lowe
Sep 18, 2015
8 steps to finding the perfect software engineering job
Career unicorns
Software components that lack explicit boundaries produce leaks that blur contexts, corrupt knowledge, and create fragile dependencies. Here's the...
Steven A. Lowe
Jan 27, 2016
Domain-driven design: Are your boundaries leaking?
Border patrol
Slooflirpa is a new programming language in its pre- pre- pre-alpha days. But you should harbor no reservations about using it in production.
Steven A. Lowe
Apr 1, 2016
Introducing a new programming language: Slooflirpa
Best of none
Use tiny types to fill holes in your code, eliminate errors, and simplify object construction and validation.
Steven A. Lowe
Feb 13, 2018
Big benefits from tiny types: How to make your code's domain concepts explicit
Visibility pays off
The traditional cost accounting model can spell death for agile projects. Here's how lean accounting can help—and how to sell it.
Steven A. Lowe
Dec 21, 2015
Breaking through agile's glass ceiling: The move to lean accounting
Fragile agile
Are we so afraid of Big Design Up Front that now we fear all modeling and design activities? This article explains how and why to incorporate agile...
Steven A. Lowe
Aug 29, 2016
Moving beyond MVP: 5 agile design practices you can't afford to ignore
Designed for coding
We could all use a software engineer mentality to be successful. Here are 7 lesser known skills software engineers can teach executives.
Steven A. Lowe
Aug 21, 2015
7 skills software engineers can teach CEOs
Study up
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