Mark Pearl

August, 2016

Ladder of Inference

You are making a proposal in meeting and the main stakeholder you are trying to convince glances down and checks their watch. What do you think?

From Platform Manifesto to Platform Principles

We are in the process of moving from a product centered development approach to a platform centered development approach. This not only changes how we make things, it also means we need to change our mindset.

My Ideal Hackathon

After blogging about my past insights at hackathons I’ve come up with my own ideal hackathon. I’m sure it has flaws, but here is how it stands right now…

Why do a Hackathon?

In the last two years I have attended 2 hackathons from two different companies. Both have been great experiences that I have been grateful to attend.

The Business Analysts Mindset and Agile

Whenever advocating change, it helps to understand the mindset of all the people who will be affected by it. At its essence, agile software development is about change. Because I have been a software developer all my life, I have always looked at agile and the change it effects from...

Libraries vs Frameworks

A framework is something that usually forces a certain way of implementing a solution, whereas a tool is something that makes implementing what you want to do easier.

Blue Green Deployment Notes

In essence, you have two identical production environments called Blue & Green At any one time only one server is live! The live server is always called the Green server. The ‘not’ live server is always called the Blue server. At the final stage of testing, testing takes place on...

ITerm Notes

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