Matt Blodgett

The most effective technical leader I ever worked with had a track record for coming onto a project and whipping it into shape. His ideas we...

Recently I was re-reading Joel Spolsky's classic blog post  The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code . I hadn't read that post in many...

Vision is so important in software development. Without the engineers understanding the overall vision, they can't resolve ambiguity in ...

It's interesting to listen to the word choices that people use in the daily standup . "I should be done with that today." ...

Spike is fun to say.  Spike! For the unfamiliar, the spike is a concept from Agile methodologies that means a time-boxed backlog item wher...

I wrote in 2017 a post called Don't Trap Your Clients in the Bikeshed . That post was about avoiding the trap of seeking feedback on tri...

Users build up expectations about how applications should work based on the applications they're already familiar with. If you're in...