Failure
I recently read the book “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth” from John C. Maxwell. It is a great book with many valuable thoughts about growth and personal development. Among other things, he writes that failure doesn’t define one, which made me think of how I respond when I do something wrong. In my previous job I tried to rewrite a product and the project failed (I have a draft article that I will also post some day).
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I’m on my way to work and today starts a new sprint, which means we plan it, but also review the statistics and results of the last sprint. I haven’t looked at the numbers yet, but they will be good. We got all, or at at least almost all of the planned work done. That would be now the 4th good sprint in a row and last week we went for a beer after work to celebrate the successful three prior sprints.
Read more →The Value of Unit Testing
A while back I read an article somewhere where the author made the point that unit tests are of limited value, because many of them never fail. An outcome that never changes contains no information and is therefore of little value, especially considering the the investment required to write them. I unfortunately didn’t take note of the reference and can’t go back to double check, whether what I remember is what the author really said.
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