Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

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...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Copilot Is Outsourcing 2.0

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Decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.) - Will Larson, " Care...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Engineering-led Research Tickets

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One of my optimistic beliefs about software engineers is that we're full of good ideas about how things around us could be improved. We...
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