Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Keep Code Reviews Focused on the Code
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Hopefully we're all doing code reviews , right? Whether it's part of a pull request process, or something else, it's important ...
Monday, February 24, 2020
"Environmental Issue"
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I really like a post I read recently from Paul Osman called Production Oriented Development . He touches on a lot of topics near and dear ...
Monday, January 27, 2020
Process Bikeshedding
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Hopefully we’re all familiar with Parkinson’s law of triviality : Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a ...
Monday, December 30, 2019
Documentation as Code
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I remember being blown away when I first saw Cucumber roughly a decade ago. It was like writing documentation, and then executing the docum...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Breaking Work Into Chunks That Users Care About
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When a product backlog item (PBI) is finished, there should be some product of that work that is independently useful to the business. Let...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
You Test In Production
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I always enjoy hearing about heretical ideas in software methodology. I remember the first time I read the phrase “if it hurts, do it more o...
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Deliver Us From Estimation
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It’s not ideal to think of our product as a long list of things we must do. It’s not the best idea to predict when we’ll be done, or even p...
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