In this series of posts I am going to talk about what it is we need to do, as Sql developers and DBAs to improve our working practices so that we take advantage of modern development patterns and practices to improve the quality of our work, the time it takes to implement features, lower the risk of deployments and have more fun as well.

This blog is focused on becoming more agile, but even in a strict waterfall environment you can still take the methods we will talk about to improve your processes, just because you have created your design up front and had it signed off, doesn’t mean that you cannot write unit tests and have an integration server, it just means you are more formal in your design, your ability to handle changes and your documentation which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.