Hacker News with Generative AI: Agile Development

The reverse YAGNI (medium.com)
This blog post focusses on the critical technology decisions (specifically on tools) that I believe are missed by techies on non-trivial software projects. At least I have missed them in the past because they seemed like “over-engineering”, and the bricks of YAGNI would be hurled around.

Software Engineering, Technology, Agile Development

6 points by sidcool 41 days ago | 0 comments

Principles for product velocity (ssoready.com)
Building the right thing shouldn't take very long -- doing away with nonsense makes product development really fast

Product Development, Agile Development, Efficiency

226 points by noleary 71 days ago | 132 comments

Against the 'QA‐Free' Philosophy (github.com/getlago)
I recently watched Pieter Levels' interview with Lex Friedman and dove through the comments. Most discussed one hallmark topic: Pieter’s 1-click deployment system that only leverages local tests for testing. In Pieter’s own words, he’s notorious for not setting up staging servers. He prefers a stripped-down pipeline, something that enables him to ship fast.

Software Development, Deployment, Testing, Agile Development

8 points by AnhTho_FR 107 days ago | 0 comments

Ad Hoc Infrastructure – By Kent Beck (tidyfirst.substack.com)

Software Engineering, Agile Development, Infrastructure

14 points by rbanffy 141 days ago | 2 comments

If Scrum is so great (substack.com)

Agile Development, Project Management, Software Development

26 points by aard 152 days ago | 31 comments

Moxie Marlinspike: Agile is killing software innovation (theregister.com)

Agile Development, Software Development, Innovation

84 points by signa11 161 days ago | 101 comments

U.S. Department of Defense – Detecting Agile BS [pdf] (2018) (defense.gov)