debugging everything
What is debugging, really? I’ve thought about it for most of my life and never really come up with a satisfactory answer until today.
Tag: Process
strategic capacity
In a small & fast engineering team, it’s challenging to quantify work being done. There’s so much to do, and it’s difficult to categorize. How can you determine your capacity for addressing your strategic roadmap when stakeholders ask about it?
devaluing quality
Software building is a team activity, and QA is an indispensable stakeholder on a well-functioning team.
transition time
We usually ignore transition time. If your focus needs to transition, make space for that.
victory laps
Moments worthy of victory laps come from stories which have a beginning, middle, and end. If you’re not actively communicating these stories to a team, eventually startup-era victory laps fade into memory.
binary consensus
Most substantive community work is about consensus seeking, and software is naturally very bad at this. How do you put humans at the center of community software? Don’t build better algorithms, build better workflows.