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  • Beginnings of an Agile Coach

    So, I’ve not blogged in a while…  I’ve been at a new client since January as an Agile Coach, it’s been quite the learning curve,  leaving me little mental space left for blogging!  To celebrate my return I have got a new blog theme. Pretty! Agile Coach?! What is one of those? Teacher, Instructor, Coach, Trainer,…

  • Reflections on my last gig…

    I have just rolled off of my project of the last 8/9 months, and thought it was a good point to reflect on my time there. Once again I had an awesome time. I learnt a lot, met some great people, made some good friends, watched people grow, and most importantly contributed to a great…

  • Bringing visibility to code quality metrics

    It’s often hard to measure whether or not the quality of your codebase is improving. It’s also very easy to become overwhelmed by software quality metrics. With so many, you stop paying any attention. One of the metrics my current team has been paying a lot of attention to is a “duplicate count”. It’s a measure…

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  • Git for Beginners – A Sample Workflow

    So here is my *very* happy path sample workflow, using local branches, with explanations for first time users of Git. See here for a worksheet with useful git commands and their uses and a sample workflow. This covers only what this post covers. You will aslo see references here to “git tf”. This is not…

  • Git for Beginners – Team Lunch and Learn

    Our team has just embarked on “Lunch and Learn”s. (A time for the team to get together over lunch and learn about something new). For the first one, my colleague Tom and I volunteered to teach the team to use Git… Our development team was previously all located in the UK, but we are about…