In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code