Productivity

A little less talking

8 April 2021

Communication is the core of software development. We shape our solutions through conversations with customers, stakeholders and colleagues. We evolve architecture through debate and discussions. We write code to talk...

How to avoid status meetings

1 November 2020

Meeting culture is that ubiquitous pest that stains corporate life. Middle managers often have their agenda covered with back-to-back meetings like some kind of twisted mosaic. And in these days...

Flexiblity is a superpower

10 February 2020

Every company calls itself flexible. It's one of those meaningless buzzwords used to attract talent. Most businesses are extremely rigid in their mindset. I regularly hear from companies that think starting...

Minimum viable team

23 December 2019

Management worships scaling. More is better. Large teams can churn out more features faster. Strong managers shine in huge hierarchies. Sure, it can be a bit wasteful, but if you...

Pragmatic Software Development

29 November 2019

Software developers constantly make trade-offs. Picking an opinionated framework speeds up delivery, but makes it harder to build non-conventional features. Larger payloads vs multiple requests. Does this project benefit from...

Slow factories and fast cars

4 August 2019

Kanban is where software development starts getting interesting. It shows you a lot of flaws in the organisation. https://twitter.com/sftwrcraftman/status/1157972095596470273 What a great question! Most of what we call Agile is based around optimizing...