Summary of “Lil Nas X is the King of the Crossover”
In the New York Times Magazine’s Music Issue for 2020, Wesley Morris wrote a piece entitled “Lil Nas X is…
Author: Kris Hatcher
I’m a Software Architect with 14 years of experience leading engineering teams across EdTech, Construction, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. Known for producing efficient and well-functioning teams from 5 to 25 people, I’ve designed and implemented an integrated scheduling system for global staff & students and drove the technical components of an operational re-alignment to maximize virtual classroom utilization. Currently exploring Senior Engineer, Architect, Lead, and Manager roles where I can help mid-sized organizations achieve more predictable software delivery.
Summary of “Everything Ruth Rundle Sings Sounds Like a Warning” by Hanif Abdurraqib
In “Everything Ruth Rundle Sings Sounds Like a Warning,” published in the New York Times Magazine’s March 2021 issue, writer…
Internet Voting: Not Ready for National Elections in the United States
In the Information Age, American society has demonstrated an increasing reliance on the Internet to make all parts of life…
A More Perfect Union: Battling our Original Sin
This paper evaluates President Barack Obama’s campaign speech at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008. The full…
Chevrolet Bolt: Best in Class Fully Electric Vehicle
For an environmentally conscious consumer, there are many choices in the automotive marketplace which provide an ecological benefit over traditional…
Details Matter
We’ve all heard the nuggets of wisdom from our grandparents or mentors, “a stitch in time saves nine” or “the…
How to Train Agile Product Owners Using Financial Terms
Prioritizing stories for an upcoming sprint can lead to confusion and miscommunication between the product owner and agile teams. But putting that exercise into financial terms, such as purchase, budget, cost, and investment—a set of words that everyone understands, no matter what their area of expertise is—gets everyone thinking about value.
Code Factories: Making Agile Work in Large Organizational Teams
Making the transition to agile can be difficult for teams that are used to working in large groups and reporting to a single manager. Kris Hatcher suggests a new way to work: in smaller teams called code factories, which are created to stick with a specific product throughout its lifetime.
Simplify Your User Stories: Make Them Independent
Writing independent user stories seems simple, but it is actually difficult to do well. There are often parts of some stories that are dependent on other stories’ functionalities, so it’s not easy to keep them separated. Kris Hatcher relates how his team wrote and scored stories to keep them independent but still meeting acceptance criteria.
Welcome to Agile: A Developer’s Experience
In this article, a developer shares his personal experience with the transition from a waterfall environment to an agile one. He compares what it was like for him coding, learning, and communicating using each methodology, and he shares what it was like making the change to agile—and why he’s never looking back.