Are they? Really?

Everytime we decide when to deploy, we're making a business decision. And few business decisions are black-or-white.

How can a team of two work in small batches from different timezones?

Smaller releases are safer releases

Pull requests are like bread. They go stale quickly.

Unlike in the physical world, few physical constraints prevent us from delivering software in small batches.

Lack of unit testing drives the need for manual testing. Since testing is bunched up, development is as well.

What makes working on the single most important, small change you can do, a challenge?

Are things moving slowly, but you don't know why? Reduce your batch size.

How does your team respond to unplanned work? Does it lead to crunch time?

Traditionall PRs quickly snowball out of control. Maybe the Micro-PR can help.