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Book Review: No Estimates

As I’ve said in a previous post, I don’t like estimating. So I decided to have a look at Vasco Duarte‘s No Estimates book.

While reading this book, I had 4 questions in mind:

Why are estimates waste?
What questions do estimates try to answer?
What to use instead for story estimation?
What to use instead for project estimation (e.g. for bids)?

So, let’s first have a look at the book and then we’ll see how it helped me answer these questions.

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Book Review: Domain-Driven Design

When I started programming, people were talking about Domain-Driven Design. Being a junior, I gave more attention to the tactical patterns. I kind of got the idea behind repositories, entities, value objects, etc.. Six years later and I still see people paying more attention to the tactical patterns. Even Eric Evans says that he has overemphasized the building blocks. So, in order to get a better understanding about what is Domain-Driven Design, I decided to read the book that introduced it. The main purpose was to gain more knowledge about the strategic patterns of DDD.