We’ve all seen them wherever software teams work: the whiteboards with sticky notes posted in neat little rows and columns, or more likely these days, the electronic Scrum or Kanban board filled with card-like things in even neater rows and columns. People sit around quietly at their desks tapping away and every now and then, someone m...

Making software means changing code, and this is generally an unpredictable affair. Maybe that new requirement means making a change to code that may or may not have been written with that requirement in mind. Even if it were, maybe the person making the change is new to that part of the code and does not know the simplest way to make ...