Tim Ottinger's thoughts on Software Development.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Who Are You To Say What's Right?
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This is probably too snarky, but bear with me: If I fill my fuel tank with non-fuel or the wrong fuel, it will damage my car and fail to p...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
A quick note on "At Scale"
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i will submit that the problem of scale is mostly that you Have to deal with divergent, incompatible SW development paths Might not be ab...
Who (the heck) Am I?
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I'm Tim Ottinger. You may already know me. I'm a long-time developer, agilist, XPer, CI/CD, teaming/ensemble, TDD, and general softw...
Monday, July 7, 2025
How much rework do you WANT?
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How much failure demand and rework do you feel is appropriate in your system? Rework in software is the correction of unacceptable code. Tha...
Monday, March 3, 2025
There is No Automatic Reset for Engineering
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Do you remember all those rushed changes that your developers implemented three years ago, and how they complained about the design damage t...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Pair Programming Listicle
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There are many ways to collaborate, and pair programming is the first many people consider. It's a useful practice, though it can be e...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Irresponsibility: Estimates and NoEstimates
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Sometimes the argument is made that not estimating is irresponsible . I understand why people say it. I don't necessarily agree. It is...
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