Radek Falhar

Software developer, eXtreme Programming mentor and fan of science, technology and Japanese pop culture.

[Volt Česko @VoltCzechia]

Přijďte na panelovou diskusi o roli Česka v Evropě.
Máme usilovat o hlubší spolupráci? Nebo se více soustředit na sebe? Máme aktivně spoluutvářet evropský projekt, třeba i směrem k federalizaci? Nebo raději zachovat současný stav?

Join for a panel discussion to discuss what role Czechia could play in Europe - whether we should seek more cooperation or rather concentrate on ourselves, whether we should strive for a more active role of shaping the European project maybe even towards federalisation or whether it is better to maintain the status quo.

[STAR Voting @5starvoting]

When a group of people need to choose something, how do they decide what to pick? The differences between these voting methods may surprise you!

https://t.co/MOfq8AaVl1

[Not My Agile @NotMyAgile]

If you wrote the code, you cannot update the tracking ticket. We need separation of duties for compliance reasons.

#NotMyAgile

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

How "optional" are development practices?
Can I work in a sub-optimal way that creates trouble for the company, the team, and the customer if I feel it "works for me?"
Can I do that even though better ways are known?
Where do you see the boundary? What is the litmus?

[Not My Agile @NotMyAgile]

Oh, we’re absolutely doing this agile. We just have a waterfall plan is all.

#NotMyAgile

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

Inside-the-box Brainstorming

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Software projects are clearly difficult things to do well, but large government software projects have such terribly high failure rates that statistically they are doomed to failure before they even begin.

This one wasted $5m... WHY?!

(Link to the video in my bio)

[Inspirado-LLC @inspirado_llc]

@tottinge The treatment of the actual development as if it were a black box, by so-called "agilists" is maddening.

For every one social media post about how to write a good test (for example), there are 999 posts about how to have a fun sailboat format retrospective.

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

Sometimes people who don't understand software development AT ALL think that a development request is (or should be) just like placing an online order.

"Adding new capabilities into a complex working system without errors or side-effects" vs "buying a shoe horn"

[Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic]

I often see organizations that have formed a team, but in reality what they call a team is just a group of individual workers who work in full isolation.

[Radek Falhar @RadekFalhar]

@thecaptain_nemo Could this be survivor bias? We only notice predictions that were correct. But there could be hundreds, or even thousands, predictions that turned out to be wrong, and were forgotten by history.

[Radek Falhar @RadekFalhar]

@BatsouElef Yes. And your question seems to imply "human intelligence" is somehow good. It isn't. Human intelligence is severely limited and imperfect. "Human intelligence" is a low bar to set for ability for problem solving and learning.

[Radek Falhar @RadekFalhar]

@RyanEls4 I really hope you have forgotten the /s . Some people might take you seriously.

[Radek Falhar @RadekFalhar]

@Hasen_Judi @VasiliyZukanov Could you please not group TDD with Microservices or Scrum? TDD is actually good.

[Petros Amoiridis @amiridis]

PRs are fundamentally flawed. They do not represent the way someone gradually develops something in the order that matters. You just see a huge list of diffs in some random order. Even if you go commit by commit, most haven't cared enough to break the commits and organize them in a sensible way. I often feel PRs are someone's vomit thrown on you, and you trying to figure out what they had eaten.

[Cory House @housecor]

This is an oddly common claim.

There’s no reason devs can’t effectively QA each other’s work.

Devs aren’t inherently “bad at QA”. Devs are just humans. They can do anything any other human can do.

[Radek Falhar @RadekFalhar]

@alexbunardzic I dont understand how batch size makes sense int this context. I feel that better words could be used to improve clarity?

[Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic]

It's not about how frequently we commit, it's about how frequently we run the code.

[Radek Falhar @RadekFalhar]

@RyanEls4 I believe you have missed /s