Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Above All Else, Sustainability

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From the principles of the Agile Manifesto : Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Agile as Progressive Enhancement

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When I was coming up as a young web developer. the concept of progressive enhancement was kind of at the hipster vanguard of web developmen...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Legibility

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I recently came across a blog post called  Seeing Like a Software Company by Sean Goedecke on Hacker News . The post hooked me right away b...
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...
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