Capgemini Engineering

When was the last time you or a colleague looked at some code and made a comment about its attractiveness? You may have said that some code was “ugly” or, if you were more fortunate, you might have called it...

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti Microservice, far from it. Come and ask me and I’ll give you a lot of reasons why they can benefit any development project. And there are plenty of posts on the web and...

On the first day of my first professional job, an experienced colleague gave me a piece of advice which has served me well for many years: "Admit it when you don't know the answer" Simplistically, this works because it prevents...

Few Agile approaches actively manage risk. There are some tools to help with risk, such as sprints, Definition of Done, etc. but there are few tools that are explicit about risk. Risk burndown is an approach I have used to...

I posted previously about the fact we’re “doing” Microservices. At that time I was hedging pretty extensively (as various commenters pointed out). This was predominantly because we we’re pathfinding (or at least broadening the paths for the rest of us...

There are thousands of situations in which you do not want to reinvent the wheel. It is a well known principle in Software Engineering, but not always well applied/known into the Drupal world. Let’s say for example, that you have...

What is my aim with this post? It is to give you a good introduction to Oracle’s VirtualBox so you know all about it and what it can do. This is not a tutorial on how to install it and...

Up until Drupal 8 there has been little to encourage well organised code. It now has PSR-4 autoloading so your classes are automatically included. Even though Drupal 8 is just round the corner, a lot of us will still be...

Drupal 8 is the latest version of Drupal, a modern, PHP 5.4-boasting, REST-capable, object-oriented powerhouse. The concepts are still the same as the previous versions but the approach is now different. Drupal 8 comes with a modern Object Oriented Programming...

This post delves into Little’s Law and how it relates to KanBan for software development. Understanding these concepts and their relationship will help agile practitioners improve the delivery pipeline, in particular by knowing what to measure and inspect. (Software engineers...