Dear Architects, Do Better
19 Jul 2022
Today I’m going to make a few people mad, get a few things that have been bothering me out there, and hopefully, get a few folks to try something a little different.
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Prioritizing for Feedback
15 Jul 2022
There are a lot of prioritization techniques that exist, and it’s worth getting comfortable with a handful of them. Each one has strengths and weaknesses, so having a few you can use rounds out your ability to prioritize.
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Book Review - The Checklist Manifesto
13 Jul 2022
I was talking with some friends the other day about the state of our industry, as we often do, and someone mentioned various problematic metaphors that people use. In particular, the metaphor that software teams should work like a surgical team led by a surgeon. That led to a book recommendation for The Checklist Manifesto. I picked it up, read through it, and thought I’d share my major takeaways.
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Make One Small Adjustment to Your Roadmaps
11 Jul 2022
I’m not a fan of most roadmaps or their usage, but so what? They are a near-universal tool in many companies that awkwardly try to communicate what is going on and their timelines. Despite them turning into vague work-breakdown schedules, there is something we can do to improve them.
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Tales of Efficiency
06 Jul 2022
The alarm goes off in the morning, and as usual, I begin my day by putting on my clothes. Now, I’ve been putting on my clothes for a long time, and I like to do things efficiently, so I put my clothes on in the following order:
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What Almost Every Example of User Stories Gets Wrong
01 Jul 2022
User stories are ubiquitous these days as the method of representing work that development teams need to do. Yet, very few groups ever really understand them well enough to get much value out of them. While I still think user stories are an excellent tool, in this article, I will show yet another problem people have when writing them.