Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Finish Things

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In Lean , there's a lot of talk about reducing work in progress (WIP). It's interesting to me that even though it seems that Lean c...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Challenging the Pull Request Orthodoxy

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A thread showed up in my Twitter feed the other day from  Dragan Stepanović about the low efficiency of pull requests for small changes and...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Methodologies Are Descriptive, Not Prescriptive

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In all my years in the software industry, I've never seen a team where I would say the methodology they professed to use actually matter...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Incomplete, with high quality

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In a presentation I gave at a past job, I summarized the Agile philosophy as: "Deliver business value to real users faster." Maybe...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Career Philosophy: Product vs. Infrastructure

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A running theme of my blog over the years has been me trying to figure out the landscape of the software industry and where I fit within it....
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Include the Thing

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I suppose you could file this post in my series of remote work posts, but it's really just about effective written communication in a t...
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"...
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