Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Some Thoughts on QA
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A recent comment on Hacker News got me thinking about the role of QA people in software projects… To quote Dodge ( via Deming ), ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Conway’s Law & Remote Teams
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Conway’s Law states: organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication str...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
The Harsh Light of Remote Work
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I came across the Remote Only manifesto recently, and while reading the points was struck by a common theme. One of the major hurdles to ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
The private office is dead, long live the private office!
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As someone who has been a vocal critic of open plan offices over the last several years, while also gleefully taking in the rise of remote ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Humane Offices: The HN List (April 2018)
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An Ask HN post hit the front page of Hacker News this month asking people to submit information about companies that specifically do not us...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
The Know-not-all Developer
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In the Hacker News discussion of a recent post by a programmer who had publicly quit Google, I ran across a comment that I wished I could...
Monday, February 26, 2018
The Professional Buzzkill
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I’ve joked occasionally that every software project needs a dedicated “Buzzkill”—someone who balances out the pie-in-the-sky thinking that o...
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