Adam Margherio

Code reviews for scope control

We got bit recently. A team member made changes that were outside of the current sprint scope and had been marked as on-hold. Those changes ended up breaking part of the application at the exact wrong time. In spite of all the moving pieces that weren't written down

Scope management, a retrospective

In my last post, I wrote about some of the issues my team is having around scope management and demand intake. It's been a while since the sprint in question, so it's definitely worth an update. We're about two sprints past the one in

We've got a scope management problem

I think it's time to admit it - as a team, we're horrible at scope management. Now that it's been said, we can dig in a bit as to why exactly that is. Sprints and scope In the grand scheme of things, we'

Reverting Debian from Sid to Stable

I've been running a personal server for quite a while in our house since I've cut cable. There were a couple things that I absolutely needed to get right before I would get a high enough WAF (wife acceptance factor) to make it usable as a