Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Maximize the Amount of Work Not Done
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My favorite principle of the Agile Manifesto addresses simplicity, or as they describe it... the art of maximizing the amount of work no...
Monday, April 27, 2020
Does this feel agile?
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This is how Merriam-Webster defines agile : marked by ready ability to move with quick, easy grace having a quick, resourceful, and adap...
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...
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