One of the design patterns I have used often in my career is the Strategy Pattern. This is a very powerful pattern. I like the definition from my favorite patterns book, “Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide“ The Strategy Pattern defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each one, and makes them interchangeable. Strategy lets … [Read more…]
I came across this question the other day on LinkedIn and I wanted to share my thoughts in a quick post. First, let’s restate a Scrum Master’s role. Basically, the Scrum Master is responsible for guiding a team to follow Scrum’s best practices. In addition, he/she is also responsible for removing any barriers the team … [Read more…]
I have been a part of a both 1 week and 2 week sprints throughout my career and have read several opinions on which duration of sprint cycles is best. My opinion? It depends. There can be several factors that can help you determine which duration is best for a team. Below are a few … [Read more…]
I just started blogging and I have to send a special thanks to John Sonmez at simpleprogrammer.com and his free email course on blogging. If you are interested at all in starting a blog and don’t know where to start, I highly recommend this course. You can subscribe here. It will teach you all you … [Read more…]
The Private Implementation Design Pattern (PImpl) is a nice way to hide the internals of a class from other classes that would depend on it otherwise. The advantage of doing so is that it simplifies the header dependency tree which will result in faster build times. For larger systems and/or slow build servers, this may … [Read more…]