Adam Williams, Vice President of Private Equity at Symphony, has been in business leadership roles for over 20 years. Adam started his professional story as a school teacher and coach, and his love for sharing knowledge is what ultimately drove all of his roles in the future.

In his book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland introduces us to the idea and origins of Scrum. He brings us to a time when he was serving as a pilot in the air force during the Vietnam war. They had a clear directive - OODA: observe, orient, decide and act.

This article is part of the JPA Pitfalls series, and our first topic of discussion is some common JPA relationship mapping pitfalls. JPA makes it really easy to do things the wrong way, and makes it really unintuitive to do things right.

To mock or not to mock - why is this discussion even on the table? Somehow it’s a complete no-brainer that the answer is a straightforward ‘yes’ since developers need to remove all dependencies and use mocking frameworks to write reliable, repeatable tests yielding consistent outcomes.