There’s very little reason to wait for reviews, and virtually no reason to wait for a deployment. We changed our workflow to focus on the right things, with a very…
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Cognitive Load: Three Ways to Optimize – A Step-by-Step Guide
As you grow your business and your team, keeping everyone on the same page can be challenging. To ensure that everyone is working in alignment, you’ll want to optimize the…
The things we know
I'm impressed by what people accomplish with tools like Excel, Macros, and some no-code automation. Recently, my DevOps team and I had the opportunity to support a project that aimed…
Screaming into the void
Message queues, events streams, events sourcing, those fronts have almost become as entrenched as the language and editor debates. In the effort to win this religious war, engineers forget their…
Contact with Reality
No plan survives contact with reality, or so the saying goes. So why should we make plans at all? A story.
Velocity – Gross vs. Net
Velocity is where theory and practice clash very hard. Your numbers may look great but your predictability is worthless - or vice versa.
Rank – what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. Ha! Everybody wants it and the power that comes with it, but when you use it, you lose it.
There is a Season
In most modern organizations, it's fine for everyone to challenge everything. While this is very empowering, it also brings a new responsibility: to determine when it is the right time…
The Five Phases
Project management teaches five phases to project delivery, which are widely accepted. In the software world these don't translate well, however. If you build a product to offer a service,…
If I was Black
Oldest of three, struggled to stay engaged in school, dropped out of college, has a hard time forming friendships, father died early, racked up debt, went from job to job.