“The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either'.’” - Ricky Gervais
- Goodbye Microservices – a cautionary tale.
- An example of preparatory refactoring – I’ve been practicing and advocating this for a long time not realizing there was a term for it."make the change easy, then make the easy change".
- Tech Lead – Circles of Responsibility
- The Death of the Enterprise Architecture Framework?
- Thread challenging microservices
- The four core behaviours of agility:
- Self-Organization - Scary but Powerful (Part II)
- Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.- More about microservices
- Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
- Why Your Privacy Is Worth More Than You Think
- How my colleagues and I stay sane in our open office
- Open offices drive all sorts of bad behavior
- One of the classic rebuttals to the so-called benefits of remote working is the Allen Curve
- The Wisdom of Pessimism
- Please Do Not Take More Risks
- Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis
- Organizations with a lack of psychological safety are incentivized for big batches (a.k.a. waterfall).
“To figure out whether you really understand an idea, write it down. Unclear writing is a sign of unclear thinking. To figure out whether anyone else will understand your writing, read it out loud. Unclear speaking is a sign of unclear writing.” –Adam Grant
“Corporate life (not mine) is fascinating. Book an hour long meeting with 40 people with no agenda? No one bats an eye. Ask for a few hundred bucks for professional development? Requires several weeks of discussion and goes all the way up to VP level for review.” Eric Bin
“A "vanity metric" is something that you measure that doesn't lead to improvement. They aren't "actionable." E.g.: the number of page hits on your web site is a vanity metric because there's nothing you can do if you don't like the number, & it tells you nothing useful.” – Allen Holub
“My code can’t be tidier than my thinking. The purpose of my tidying is to clarify my thinking by manipulating the code. The code ends up better, but because I understand more not because I somehow forced it to be better in spite of my confusion.” – Kent Beck
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