Agile Principles —3 min read
How would you improve velocity on a team you're working with?

The first thing I would do is stop measuring velocity.

Agile Principles —73 min listen
Adventures In DevOps 100: DevOps 100

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

Career Advice —1 min read
An easy way to contribute to open source

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

Career Advice —1 min read
My first accepted pull request

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

Agile Principles —29 min episode
Tiny DevOps episode #27 Steve Wells — Using Games and Simulations for Agile Education

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.

Everything Else —5 min read
No, writing HTML is not programming. But watering your lawn is.

Writing HTML doesn't meet the definition of programming. But you'll be surprised at what does!

Quality Engineering —2 min read
Do you enjoy finding bugs?

Rather than seeing code review, or QA, as a gatekeeping process, let's frame it as an opportunity to elevate the output of the entire team.

Agile Principles —2 min read
A DevOps simulation with toothpicks

This 15-minute exercise demonstrates the silos problem DevOps aims to solve, and serves as a great conversation starter.

Agile Principles —2 min read
But we REALLY need TODO comments!

Enhance discoverability, and reduce comment rot by making sure every TODO comment references an issue number.

Coding Practices —1 min read
Why "Consider refactoring this" comments are silly

Code is always subject to refactoring when the need arises. Adding a comment to that effect is just noise.

Agile Principles —2 min read
TODO: Add an intriguing title

TODO comments are everywhere. And they're usually ignored. So just stop creating them.