The Lost Art of Prototyping
27 Dec, 2009
Derisking is critical to validating the team's direction. Let's get back to it.
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Agile: The Good Parts
14 Sep, 2011
Agile gets a terrible rap in some circles. Here are some things that I've really valued from the movement.
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Read article →Continuous Testing
30 Jan, 2015
Thousands of tests, dozens of times per day. Here's how we do quality assurance in a continuoius delivery environment.
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Read article →Reclaiming Value from Bugs and Outages: Thoughts on Post-Mortems
08 Mar, 2015
Post-mortems are a critical mechanism for driving massive improvements. Here's how.
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Read article →Why does Bad Waterfall Happen to Good People?
20 Jul, 2017
How do we dismantle the waterfall of work and start working together better?
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Read article →Working Without Estimates
22 Oct, 2017
There are a lot of things that suck about traditional estimates. So we stopped using them.
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Read article →Zero Defect Policy
28 Mar, 2018
There's a vastly simpler way to manage defects than what most teams do.
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Read article →Cross-functionality is a Secret Weapon for Product Development Teams
03 Oct, 2018
Here I describe a bunch of magical properties to cross-functional teams that I've seen over the years.
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Read article →The Trap of Solution-First Thinking
24 Feb, 2019
How can we do better than "Best Practices"?
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Read article →The Downward Spiral of Test-Later Automated Testing
25 Jul, 2020
If you're not doing TDD, your testing efforts can get away from you pretty quickly.
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Read article →Block-Testing
02 Nov, 2020
How you do QA is probably terrible. Let's chat about the worst "best practice" in quality assurance.
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Read article →Sometimes TDD
19 Jan, 2022
Let's get less dogmatic about TDD and talk about some scenarios where's it's really really valuable.
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Read article →Hey that seems longer than 2 weeks
28 Apr, 2022
I've stumbled upon a style of estimation that I've seen be pretty successful. I'll call it "2W+ Estimation".
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part I
30 Apr, 2022
The majority of software developers don’t really know how to do a very effective work breakdown and the results are often absolutely disastrous.
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part II
09 May, 2022
I previously explained why you should care about a good work breakdown. In this post, I’ll start to dig into how.
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part III
19 May, 2022
Thin Vertical slices are generally the best practice for work breakdowns, but they're still not as common as they should be, so I'll try to describe them more here.
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part IV
23 May, 2022
Here's the last piece of the puzzle: What does a good work breakdown look like as a whole?
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Read article →Vibe Reviewing
26 Jan, 2026
Let's examine: Can we build software without reading the code at all?
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