The Magic of Zero

Zero is kind of a magic number as far as I’m concerned; it’s the one number that’s never open to debate and never involves a slippery slope.
One of the best things we’ve done with our development process was the introduction of a root “stable” branch a couple of years ago that (in theory) is always [...]

Five Sprints into SCRUM

We kicked off Sprint 5 yesterday for Application Framework team.
Guidewire development is following SCRUM methodology. However, through all these years, due to various reason, the ideas behind Sprints are not exactly followed. There are many reasons for this, some of which are actually good reasons. However, that does not mean it was the best decision, [...]