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Bugs Can't Be Estimated

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. In an earlier post about the benefits of Agile and Scrum, I made a statement that bugs by their nature are not the same as normal features, and I wanted to take a moment to […]

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Visual Heuristics

Human Factors & UX

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Heuristic reviews are a great tool for finding usability issues in any existing interface, from web-based to desktop. It’s a quick and relatively inexpensive way to uncover, document and prioritize usability problems. From usability.gov: The […]

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The Five Deadly Sins of Software Development

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. There’s a list of deadly sins out there for just about anything related to information technology. Some have seven items, some have five, some even have nine. I haven’t seen one with 21 deadly sins […]

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Prototyping with Keynote

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I’ve been using Keynote–Apple’s version of Power Point–for at least a year now.  It provides multi slide functionality with an easy to use drag and drop interface for creating objects of pretty much any kind.  […]

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Mise En Place - Maximizing Programming Productivity

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. The knowledge and skill of a software developer are often the most expensive, and therefore most valuable, part of a new development effort. As a professional, it’s our duty to try to maximize our programming […]

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Writing Agile Requirements

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. The beginning of a project generates a lot of great ideas. But until a structure or cohesion is applied to these ideas, they end up being a loose collection of separate ideas with no direction. […]

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Data Driven Design and the Culture at Google

Human Factors & UX

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. A peek under the hood of Google’s design apparatus. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, Irene Au, User Experience Director at Google discusses her responsibilities, and in the process, reveals some telling things about the […]

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You’re at the Software Development Finish Line! Or are you?

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. There is so much focus and investment put into developing a new software application that many people fail to see that completing the development isn’t the end of the road; it’s really just the beginning. […]

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Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. A consistent nuisance problem when testing Rails applications is the “unit test gap”. This happens when the model test passes and the controller test passes, but the application as a whole fails because there’s a […]

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Definition of a Feature (Given … When … Then)

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. At some point in their career, most everyone in software development has encountered the client who paints a very eloquent picture about their fantabulous idea that’s going to revolutionize the [insert industry vertical here]. However, […]

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Agile Development for PMs: Why Agile Testing Rocks?

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. All software has bugs. I don’t care if you’re Apple, Microsoft, IBM, or a smaller, leaner ISV. Your software has bugs in it. Once you accept this fact, that into each software product a little […]

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Are We Engineering Software or People?

medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I had a nice little vacation this past week in Los Cabos. It’s always sunny, 80 and it never rains. Very nice. My wife and I had another installment of our long-running discussion called “Computer […]

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