When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
This US English idiom* comes up a lot in software development. Why and what is it? It means being too close to a problem that… Read More »When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
This US English idiom* comes up a lot in software development. Why and what is it? It means being too close to a problem that… Read More »When You Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Firstly, let’s get two things straight: Secondly, you might have noticed that a whiteboard session doesn’t need to use an actual whiteboard anymore. You can… Read More »Refining the Big Scary Story
If you’re doing DevOps and releasing frequently you may be aware of the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics. These have been identified as four… Read More »Release Cadence Considered a Poor Quality Metric
Sometimes you have to just sit back and quote something that’s important. Seth Godin nails it today like he’s nailed it countless times before: From… Read More »The Office: Dare to be Different
Following up from yesterday’s post on Minimal Viable Product, I received some great feedback on just how the MVP has lost its way. A couple… Read More »How the MVP has lost its meaning
Much is made of the MVP – the Minimal Viable Product – but so rarely is it executed in a meaningful and valuable way. So… Read More »Doing the Minimal Viable Product
I’ve recently caught up with an episode of Humans + Tech podcast with the great Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey is a principal engineer at Google, Kubernetes… Read More »Getting The Basics for Kubernetes: Linux
Got those servers hanging around with Windows NT still on them? Got that VM sitting in prod which might be a bastion host or it… Read More »Show No Fear
You can choose whatever you like from the options. Languages, tools, methodologies, ways of working, ways of being, reacting over planning, intricate refinement, gantt charts,… Read More »Delivery Wins
Back in the day, you had limited choices in how you wanted to program your computer. Not so much now. If you had a computer… Read More »Rust vs Go: Does it Matter?