Blog Posts and Other Media

We often contrast software to physical buildings--the idea that software is easy to change, whereas buildings are difficult to change. But is this really true?

None of these items directly replaces or conflicts with any of the others. In fact, you can use them all simultaneously.

Ask yourself: Will the least experienced developer likely to read this code be able to understand it?

What are best practices for using git hooks for developer productivity?

Rob Walling, co-founder of the TinySeed accelerator for bootstrapped SaaS companies, joins me to discuss what investors and potential acquirers look for in the technology they're investing in.

User stories exist to serve you, not the other way around.

I believe Jira is responsible for more lost human productivity than any other software ever created. And yes, that's even when considering Windows Me!

The best tools offer two things: They make useful things easier, and unuseful things harder.

Jonathan talks about how he prepares for a tech interview, and offers insights from the point of view of a hiring manager as well.

You may achieve technical excellence, but without a holistic agile approach, you may just be shipping technically excellent, but worthless features.

Amando Abreu joins me again, this time to discuss definitions of many of the confusing terms that abound in the industry of software development, Agile, and DevOps.

As your career progresses, you'll lkely want to niche down across more than one of these dimensions of specialization.

The term "fullstack" propagates a commodity mindset that harms candidates.

I learned that contributing to open source can take many forms, and may not require writing code at all.

The first thing I would do is stop measuring velocity.

Jillian, Jonathan, Shimon, Will, and Chuck discuss the history of the show, their favorite episodes, and what they think is coming in 2022.

Next time you're learning a new open source tool, consider submitting doc fixes as you see errors.

Have you ever contributed to open-source software? You should. It's easy.

Steve Wells talks about his platform for Agile games and simulations, and how they can be used to illustrate complex Agile concepts, such as inter-team dependencies, in easier to digest ways.