Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
(addyo.substack.com)
“Move faster and break even more things.”
“Move faster and break even more things.”
You Don't Have Time Not to Test
(medium.com)
Testing isn’t a sunk cost. It’s a compounding return that shapes better code and ultimately accelerates your team.
Testing isn’t a sunk cost. It’s a compounding return that shapes better code and ultimately accelerates your team.
Show HN: EnkiTask: Lightweight Project Management for Freelancers
(enkitask.com)
Our tool is designed for both freelancers and team collaborations. Built with Agile principles and Scrum methodology, it strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and power. Keep your tasks organized, projects on track, and budgets intact, whether you're working solo or managing a team.
Our tool is designed for both freelancers and team collaborations. Built with Agile principles and Scrum methodology, it strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and power. Keep your tasks organized, projects on track, and budgets intact, whether you're working solo or managing a team.
Factory – The Agentic Command Center for Building Software
(factory.ai)
The hard part of coding isn’t the code, it’s everything else. The hard part is spending months trying to find all the hidden dependencies and broken APIs and mismatched versions. The hard part is the understanding, planning, negotiating, re-prioritizing, and documenting. Enterprise software development is hard because combing through the labyrinth of outdated docs and tech debt is like trying to untangle all the rivers of the world once they’ve already flowed into the ocean.
The hard part of coding isn’t the code, it’s everything else. The hard part is spending months trying to find all the hidden dependencies and broken APIs and mismatched versions. The hard part is the understanding, planning, negotiating, re-prioritizing, and documenting. Enterprise software development is hard because combing through the labyrinth of outdated docs and tech debt is like trying to untangle all the rivers of the world once they’ve already flowed into the ocean.
Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022)
(departmentofproduct.com)
According to the Department of Product’s survey data, by far the most popular product development methodology (for our audience at least) is Scrum with 2 week sprints.
According to the Department of Product’s survey data, by far the most popular product development methodology (for our audience at least) is Scrum with 2 week sprints.
Anatomy of Oscillation
(tidyfirst.substack.com)
I was at first astonished, then angered, then resigned when I saw smart people calling for the return of waterfall thinking.
I was at first astonished, then angered, then resigned when I saw smart people calling for the return of waterfall thinking.
The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model
(wiremock.io)
The testing pyramid is one of the most famous concepts in agile. But how relevant is it for developers today?
The testing pyramid is one of the most famous concepts in agile. But how relevant is it for developers today?
A high-velocity style of software development
(mihaiolteanu.me)
Yet another crowd of souls staring into the abyss of endless meetings, discussing, analyzing, voting, brainstorming, envisioning, sprinting, reviewing, refining, making so much noise, applying so many tools, writing so many cursed documents in so many different, incompatible formats and inventing so many non-formal languages and methodologies all the time.
Yet another crowd of souls staring into the abyss of endless meetings, discussing, analyzing, voting, brainstorming, envisioning, sprinting, reviewing, refining, making so much noise, applying so many tools, writing so many cursed documents in so many different, incompatible formats and inventing so many non-formal languages and methodologies all the time.
I Was Wrong About Scrum, Again
(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
So, I was reading the Scrum Guide the other day, since that’s the kind of guy I am. I am always on the lookout for something that I can quote, that a Scrum guru can’t explain away with magical logic. I haven’t found anything yet, but I haven’t given up.
So, I was reading the Scrum Guide the other day, since that’s the kind of guy I am. I am always on the lookout for something that I can quote, that a Scrum guru can’t explain away with magical logic. I haven’t found anything yet, but I haven’t given up.
Scrum's Definition of Done Is Polishing Plates in a Burning Kitchen
(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
Imagine a kitchen in chaos. Orders are shouted, chefs scramble to grab random tasks, and no one has time to stop or plan. Amid this whirlwind, the maître d’ stands at the door with a clipboard, refusing to let any dish go out unless it meets an impossible checklist of perfection. It doesn’t matter that the stove is broken or the knives are dull—the dishes must be flawless.
Imagine a kitchen in chaos. Orders are shouted, chefs scramble to grab random tasks, and no one has time to stop or plan. Amid this whirlwind, the maître d’ stands at the door with a clipboard, refusing to let any dish go out unless it meets an impossible checklist of perfection. It doesn’t matter that the stove is broken or the knives are dull—the dishes must be flawless.
Slow Deployment Causes Meetings – By Kent Beck
(tidyfirst.substack.com)
“I can’t get any code out with all these meetings.” What if this perennial engineer complaint has causation backwards? Adding and removing organizational overhead is relatively easy compared to increasing an organization’s capacity to deploy code. What if meetings and reviews are an organization’s adaptive response to avoid overloading deployment?
“I can’t get any code out with all these meetings.” What if this perennial engineer complaint has causation backwards? Adding and removing organizational overhead is relatively easy compared to increasing an organization’s capacity to deploy code. What if meetings and reviews are an organization’s adaptive response to avoid overloading deployment?
Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem
(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are merely ticket-takers, implementing one instruction after another.
In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are merely ticket-takers, implementing one instruction after another.
The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira
(ehandbook.com)
Software development cycles are taking longer and longer.Technology teams are growing larger and larger.Managing development requires more and more apps.Fewer and fewer people are actually doing the coding.For shorter and shorter periods of time.With less and less progress between constant checkpoints.
Software development cycles are taking longer and longer.Technology teams are growing larger and larger.Managing development requires more and more apps.Fewer and fewer people are actually doing the coding.For shorter and shorter periods of time.With less and less progress between constant checkpoints.
How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard
(rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
"Working software is the primary measure of progress."
"Working software is the primary measure of progress."