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What is Web Accessibility?

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:00:00 -0400

You may have heard on the news that the Supreme Court has recently denied Dominos Pizza’s petition to be appealed by the Court of Appeals on October 7, 2019. This opens the door to the plaintiff, Guillermo Robles to sue Domino’s for not meeting the necessary accessability requirements to provide service to those with functional disabilities. In this case, Mr. Robles has vision impairment which would require the assistance of a screen reader application to operate the Domino’s Pizza website.

How to Ask Great Questions Online

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:00:00 -0500

The majority of software development includes asking a lot of questions. Administrating the Ruby On Rails Link Slack, I’ve seen some of the best and worst questions asked.

Good questions save time and effort for both the asker and answerer, follow these tips to become a superstar question asker and super power your development cycle with and without community assistance.

What is an Abuser Story (Software)

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:35:36 -0400

I publicly speaking about how development teams and those who employ them should go about using user stories with security constraints and abuser stories as a security documentation tool. At this time there is not an entry on Wikipedia about it, so I am going to take a stab at writing it up for you here.

What is an Abuser Story in Software Development?

In software development and product management, an abuser story is a user story from the point of view of a malicious adversary. Abuser stories are used with agile software development methodologies as the basis for defining the activities that should be actively blocked or mitigated by the software and proven by automated regression testing.

How to use Story Points to Estimate a Web Application Minimum Viable Product

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:12:49 -0400

A user story is a concise written description that describes an item of functionality that is valuable to a user or a purchaser of a web application, preferably from the point of view of that person’s individual desires. They typically consist of three components: a written description of the story used for planning conversations about the story that serve to flesh out the details of the story tests that convey and document the desired outcome and can be used to determine when a story is complete The best user stories are sufficiently small to be accurately estimable by developers and arranged in a prioritized list where a member of the development team can always confidently pick the next most important task to work on at all times during his or her work week.

Project Roadmaps can Manage Uncertainty in Startups' Web Applications

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:00:00 -0400

Project communication breaks down quickly due to miscommunication about

Estimates
Targets
Commitments

These concepts are not clearly understood by everyone involved in a typical project.

Avoid thrashing to release your project on time and budget

Thu, 29 May 2014 11:21:09 -0400

As my team and I work towards a major deadline this week, I am reminded at how easily last minute thrashing sneaks into a project that has many stakeholders involved. This is a challenge that a properly run Agile project should be able to minimize, but it seems to always be there. Chris Getman (@chrisgetman) published a great post on his blog, referencing the same Seth Godin video that I recently watched, entitled Thrashing: Why Your Project Slipped.