Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Showing Up for Remote Work
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Remote work is awesome. I've been doing it full time for over 5 years now, and I've learned the importance of "showing up"...
Monday, June 28, 2021
Your Wiki Has Expired
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I've had the experience when starting a few jobs that I spend the first days and weeks reading lots of internal wiki articles that were ...
Monday, May 24, 2021
Goals, Not Tasks
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From my recent posting history, you might tell I'm on a real kick about how work is split up on software projects. Well, that kick con...
Monday, April 26, 2021
Code as Inventory
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I recently read a ten-year-old blog post by one of my software heroes, favorite Twitter follows , and author of Working Effectively with Leg...
Thursday, March 25, 2021
User Story or QA Story
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"What do our QA people do at the beginning of a sprint before the developers have coded any user stories for them to test?" - Eve...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Selling Technical Debt
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I tend to see technical debt discussed in a hand-wavy, fuzzy way, in which it's taken for granted that everyone knows exactly what it m...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
User Story or Manager Story
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A pet peeve of mine is when people say "user story" as a generic term for any discrete chunk of work the team needs to accomplish....
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