In distributed software systems, it’s very tempting to envision and even plan the development effort in the direction of dependencies → Downstream. Data flows from an originating source through an API to its final destination: the user-experience. So of course you have to build those things in that order… right? …

First off, a disclaimer: I am not a designer. I have bad design instincts, and I respect the ability to create usable digital presentations and interactions… BUT — I am a mobile developer, and I do know a bunch of stuff about how mobile apps and devices ought to work…

When you work on a software development team (or probably any professional team) it’s incredibly easy to go down into your own little rabbit hole, consumed by your personal world of deliveries and commitments, and forget that there are other people around you, constantly helping move you and your work…

If you’re working on a distributed software development team alongside product and facilitation professionals, like scrum master, business analyst, etc… you’re probably prescribing your dev teams work using some sort of ticketing system, and the cornerstone of that system is usually a User Story. What is a User Story According to Atlassian, the company that…

You have to be careful when you talk about an API for driving a digital experience, because the words you use have different meanings to different people. Case in point: Experience API. In this article we’ll talk about the dream that is the Experience API in the context of mobile…

Just what we need, another opinion about management. Well, mine is likely no better than anyone else’s, and since everyone is entitled to one, here it is. There are lots of well documented management styles, and if you’re here, you’ve undoubtedly already studied them and assessed your own, so we’re…

When we talk about “mobile” development, generally what we mean is the development of a two software products with identical feature sets on two distinct platforms, Android and iOS. Developing for these two operating systems requires different tools and programming languages, and that usually translates into isolated development environments where…

It’s that time of year: Goal Setting. Every company wants every employee to have goals, and there are definitely good reasons for them. But there are also some bad reasons. Goal setting too often becomes purely a performance metric that is misunderstood and misused. Let’s take a look at goal…

Remember back in 2017, the first days of Google having an opinion about application architecture because countless developers were begging them for advice? I do. As they laid out their opinions at Google I/O that year, I remember thinking the same 2 things I’ve thought at every Google I/O since…