Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Documentation Is a Competitive Advantage
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People often say that one of the reasons Stripe is so successful is that their documentation is world-class. Most companies, open source p...
Monday, June 27, 2022
New People Write the Best Documentation
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Have you ever heard that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it? I've had the experience several times when I've joined a ne...
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Let developers do "off the board" work
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When sprints are well planned and sustainably paced, it's natural to have developers who have finished all of their committed backlog it...
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Penny-wise and Pound-foolish
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What a time to be a software developer! I'm always amazed that even in an industry with high salaries and intense competition for talent...
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Ron Jeffries on Prediction
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It is common practice to make a list of essential features, think about them for a while, and then decide that they define the next release ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Bring Engineers Problems, Not Solutions
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I read a great article posted to Hacker News this week called Effective Communication With Software Engineers by Simón Muñoz. He made som...
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...
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