Lynn Thames' business Excel Software Services, helps manufacturing and distribution companies with software automation. She joins me to help answer the question: What does software development have in common with manufacturing? Her answer: Agility.

Don't worry about devs not having enough work. Worry on flow through the system.

Many people don't understand refactoring, and this leads to several anti-patterns.

log.Fatal violates the Single Responsibility Principle in insidious ways. Never use it!

Why refactoring doesn't, and shouldn't provide direct business value

5 ways smaller software releases can impact your business

If we're in the business of developing software, we're going to face uncertainty. Are you able and willing to embrace this?

Does your company produce open-source software? Are you considering doing so? Emily Omier helps open-source startups with product positioning, and today she joins me to discuss how you can position your open-source project, if you have one, and help you decide if you should have one.

The one question that lies at the heart of the "big A Agile" vs "little a agile" debate.

Old habits die hard.

Software development isn't unpredictable because of unknown external influences. It's unpredictable because it's very nature is that of discovery.