How I Make Sure I Understand a Feature Before Building

I think the most important factor in consistent delivery is understanding the work. When you understand the work, you build what the stakeholder wants, better and faster. ...

March 2, 2022

Why I Don't Point Agile Bug Tickets

When I create Agile bug tickets, I leave the story points blank. Why? Two reasons: pointing bugs creates the wrong incentives, and bugs are hard to estimate. ...

February 7, 2022

My Development Roadmap

I’ve been working on a development roadmap for my projects, and wanted to share my process. Consider this my recipe to turn an idea into software. ...

October 20, 2020

Don't Build Every Feature

There’s a detail about Today I Learned some might find unusual: we never added a way to delete posts from the site. Why ignore a basic CRUD feature? We didn’t ignore it. It was intentionally omitted. ...

June 19, 2017

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