This piece was a collaboration written by Nate Wixom and Torrey Powell. The Project Management Institute’s 2017 Pulse of the Profession survey reports that 71 percent of organizations now use agile methods to complete projects. Included among agile approaches is mob programming, [ read more...]
Many good articles and blog posts have been written on how to keep yourself motivated as a software developer. Simple Programmer alone has many. Various effective techniques have been proposed by different authors, techniques ranging from turning coding practice into a game [ read more...]
Let me be clear here: most developers don't know a s**t about how to learn programming and improve their careers. This is absolute truth. And I'm not saying this in a mean way, but as a way to alert most of you [ read more...]
Over the last two weeks, I’ve been mentoring programmers on Exercism.io on the Python language track. I saw the call for mentors on Twitter and wanted to help out. Programmers submit their solutions to particular exercises, which come with tests, and it’s [ read more...]
The Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a Microsoft product that provides all the necessary features to support the software development process, like source code management, requirements and project management, and build and release processes. These days, TFS supports two types of source [ read more...]
Successful project management is within everyone’s reach. The more serious you are about managing your programming project, the more likely it will be completed on time. The better control you have over the activities within the project, the better your team will [ read more...]