Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Friday, October 24, 2025

The Financial Architecture of Software

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Conway's Law is foundational to software engineering. It says: Organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast

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If you want to move fast, don’t make speed your goal. Make smoothness your goal. Fast naturally follows smooth. Every software organization ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Sprints Balance Consistent Delivery With Optimal Value

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Value, value, getting value to users. Work on the most valuable thing, always. You could probably summarize the Agile philosophy as "de...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Sprints Need a Cooldown

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Teams vary in the amount of handwringing their leaders do about sprints that aren't perfectly rightsized. What if we bit off too much wo...
Monday, June 23, 2025

There's a Fine Line Between Increasing Productivity and De-skilling

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In the software engineering profession, there's a concept called "resumeware". It's software that was made with the engine...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Calibrating Your Care

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I've been a subscriber to the r/ExperiencedDevs subreddit for a few months, and I've noticed a common pattern. Someone will post a ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Don't Let an LLM Write Your Unit Tests

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Writing unit tests is one of those tasks that software engineers often see as tedious. In fact, I've heard from fellow engineers that un...
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