Where I work the dashboards and performance metrics for production applications and infrastructure is available to all in all environments. Being told something is one thing.  Being shown is...

In a previous life we were developing a software layer to report across all of our hardware implementations. Each division ran on a different platform and reporting on a customer's...

Perhaps for the same reason jackrabbits run in front of cars?

Source control projects, such as SSDT, help you find and correct these issues before deploy.

Sorry,  you can't have any of our Scrum Masters or POs. We have spent too much to properly train them.  😉

Speaking of which, do your SMs and POs have formal...

I can't disagree that some forward thought is an absolute necessity. Part of the value I see in Agile is not overplanning the future, just like not developing for a...

Victor,

I don't think you fully understand how Agile works. Your description of planning the entire project up front is also known as scrummerfall. It misses every benefit of Agile.

Beyond that,...

I was surprised at the amount of debt they calculated. It translated to about $4600 which is 70-80 hours of work @ $65/hour. I think it was underestimated but calculating...

Thanks, Grant. That is certainly an option. I was able to determine that the AS clause, which does not refer to dbo, was a root cause. Also I am trying...

I am looking into this very situation in our environment. We are using composite projects where environment-specific security settings (users, role membership, CONNECT) are in scripts local to the related...

Surely there were major parts of the application enlisting EF to talk directly to tables resulting in the procedure cache filling up with adhoc queries and highly coupled interactions while...

As a coworker notes, application software typically outlives things like version control systems. Relying on VCS to house documentation presents a problem when the old VCS data cannot be ported...

The next to last section of code is truncated. There is a SELECT with no FROM. Working out the FROM is easy enough but are there other queries missing from...

And woe to the professional database developer who tries to protect data with things like constraints and well-honed coding practices only to be dismissed as a waste of perfectly good...

Rather than tell my own story I want to relate what we do at Do it Best Corp.

In the quarterly All IT meetings, the last segment is our CIO singling...