We hear a lot about technical debt in our products – the software we build and deploy – but what about the debt in our… Read More »Do You Have Hidden Delivery Debt?

I love the term software delivery to describe the act of bringing usable software to a customer. The conventional definition, according to software engineering guru… Read More »What is Software Delivery?

Do you find yourself wishing you’d never started a change? Do you ever dread having to go back to some code you wrote years ago?… Read More »What Happened to the Fun in Software Development?

We talk about delivery pipelines and CI/CD pipelines so much that you’d think software just gets squeezed out of a tube. Software is not a… Read More »Software isn’t a Liquid

Before today’s post – a little aside. I’ve now been publishing every day for three months and yesterday I tried a little experiment – to… Read More »The Eight Rules of Good Construction

Have you ever been kept waiting for an approval of a software release? Chasing senior management? Explaining to people who have no clue how your… Read More »Approvals Come First

In yesterday’s article I discuss some of the things that could be tripping you up on the way to production. Your continuous integration platform (CI)… Read More »Is Your CI Doing Valuable Work?

Can you regularly get your features into production when you want them? Can you expect to deliver something completely new in next-to-no time? The typical… Read More »How Easily Can You Deliver New Features?