Author Archives: Boyd Taylor

Where’s My Cheese?

With apologies to Stanley Mack the author of the children’s book Where’s My Cheese this blog sums up my experience this week. I must admit that I do not have a lot of time in my week for this development endeavor and who knew it would be so hard to find a file on anContinue reading “Where’s My Cheese?”

Much Ado about To-Do

When last we spoke marching orders were given to work the “Backup Collection” User Story. And there are several things to do just to complete this story. They are as follows: Deploy a Realm database to phone Create basic CRUD functionality for an entity Create a backup function to make a copy of the databaseContinue reading “Much Ado about To-Do”

Putting the Cart Before the Horse

When we last left the “Customer” we got a clear perspective on “What” the customer wants in this application. And to make the analogy we have a full Cart. However, We have not defined what kind of horse we are going to need to deliver the “Cart”. My first blog identified the building blocks weContinue reading “Putting the Cart Before the Horse”

Many Hats And Only One Head

It’s tough when you know too much :-). I am not trying to brag when I say that but the fact is successful Software Development has many “actors” and when you are only one person, those actors compete for attention and because of that I am not where I want to be today. I canContinue reading “Many Hats And Only One Head”

What the Customer Wants

Isn’t that what its all about? I don’t care if your the CEO or the Janitor. Every role in a company has a customer. And it is important the Application Developer knows the customer of the application. To often in Corporate America the Developers only have a Project Manager/Product Owner to glean this information from.Continue reading “What the Customer Wants”

Architecture Is Not Overrated

One of the tenents of Agile programing is make only what you need when you need it. Every scrum team I have participated on has set out on a development course that only knows a week or two in advance where it is going. This occurs because most product owners don’t have a clear visionContinue reading “Architecture Is Not Overrated”