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I have a three recent examples of Extreme Programming failure, specifically “Collective Code Ownership”. Some of these examples are serious. Collective Code Ownership means that everyone is responsible for all the code. Any developer may change any part of the … Continue reading →

The perception: A Redmond development team in gets in to trouble and needs help with fixing bugs. The MACH SW Team has functioned as a bug fixing house before, so we follow with tradition and send the bugs across the … Continue reading →

Do you want to have a productive team at MACH? How do you accomplish that with any team? One thing that is necessary is eliminating distractions from your team members so they can concentrate on what they do best. What … Continue reading →

How does one go about bringing changes to a group? Here are some thoughts about ways to do it when one does not have direct authority to do so. In some important cases, team leaders are what you need. For … Continue reading →

For new team members, it’s up to that person’s manager and mentor to guide them to help integrate into the team by ensuring that their code meets the appropriate level of quality and that they’re aware of team norms and … Continue reading →

Here’s a great example of everyday mentoring at MACH. This was an opportunity to address two issues: Thinking outside the box, getting creative with solutions to problems. Finding information (this resulted in a TTT series). The problem: When I saw … Continue reading →

The idea of the “TTT”, or “Tech Talk Tuesday” / “Tech Talk Thursday”, was my first big initiative for the MACH HWSW Team. The original intent was to simply improve the technical competency of the team through a series of … Continue reading →

The “Side Projects” initiative encourages all team members of the MACH HWSW Team to always have a project that they are working on in their spare time. This spare time can be found in between feature development, after a project … Continue reading →