Mini-Essay
Mini Essay #3 - Say "no"
Hope is not a strategy. The only way to do effective short term planning is to say "no" brutally.
Agility
Programming
Uncertainty and Learning as Tech Debt
Software engineering is an engine for processing tech debt into concrete learning about the customer
Books
Book Review and Highlights: "Accelerate"
Summary and highlights from "Accelerate - Building, and scaling high performing technology organizations" by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
Agile
Ditch the Urgency
Ditch the urgency to move for the sake of moving. Don’t short-circuit the thinking process. Give it the luxury of time by making it super smooth to put good ideas into action.
Platform Thinking
External Programmability: The second law of building platforms
External Programmability - The second law of building platforms
Agile
Testing strategies for agile teams
Modern testing strategies for agile teams, because traditional end-to-end testing paradigms are not enough anymore.
Organizations
Reduce collaboration by good design
Collaboration is a bad word in the wrong phase of the product's lifecycle. Good design can help reduce the cruft.
Programming
Why and How to use Feature Toggles
What are feature toggles and how to use them for faster and safer deployments
Agile
How to speed up software delivery
How to deploy software faster than you thought possible, and then faster still
Organizations
Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams
"The two pizza team" paradigm has become really popular in the context of organizing software teams. The idea is to have small, self-reliant teams working independently to solve problems. The "two-pizza" refers to the guidance to keep the team small enough that we need