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Symmathesies follow a power law, not a bell curve

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021

At my first real job, around the turn of the millenium, software engineers were graded on a bell curve. On a scale of 1 to 5, most people should get 3s, with a lower number of 4s and 2s and a much lower number of 1s and 5s. The bell curve, also called the normal …

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Tags agile, process, symmathesy, systems, Systems Thinking, teams

How will you collaborate?

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020

Here are 6 roles in collaborative decisionmaking. Which one are you? Who are you gonna fight with? What does this say about pull requests vs pair programming?

Tags collaboration, decisionmaking, Mob Programming, process

The artifact and the process

August 10, 2019

again: Every action has two results: a set of side effects on the world, and the next version of ourselves. Sometimes in the creation of an artifact, the artifact itself is less important than the process of creating it. Wardley Maps are like that too – it’s about the thought that goes into creating them, …

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Tags Generativity, process, symmathesy

Action is a process. Reasons matter.

May 31, 2019

Knowledge work has to be done for the right reason to be done well. If I choose to implement a feature because I’ll get some reward for it, like a gold star on my next review, then I will implement it far enough to check the box. I won’t get it smooth, or optimal. I …

Read moreAction is a process. Reasons matter.

Tags choice, dynamics in action, process, symmathesy

Deliberate impermanence

May 26, 2019November 21, 2017

There’s something magical about post-its falling off walls. ancient post-its on my own wall I think about this as my team spends time pruning tickets, closing ones that seemed important at the time, but now aren’t worth doing. These are ideas that need to fall through the cracks, to slide down the wall behind the file …

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Tags agile, process, seamap

Hyperproductive development

January 3, 2021June 24, 2017

TL;DR: the most productive development happens when one person knows the system intimately because they wrote it; this is in conflict with growing a system beyond what one person maintains. Let’s talk about why some developers, in some situations, are ten times more productive than others. hint: it isn’t the developers, so much as the …

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Tags architecture, complexity, process, systems

Today’s Rug: maven executable jar

January 13, 2017

I like being a polyglot developer, even though it’s painful sometimes. I use lots of languages, and in every one I have to look stuff up. That costs me time and concentration. Yesterday I wanted to promote my locally-useful project from “I can run it in the IDE” to “I can run it at the …

Read moreToday’s Rug: maven executable jar

Tags maven, process, rug

It’s Atomist Time!

May 26, 2019January 9, 2017

I’m hella excited to get to work on Atomist full-time starting now (January 2017). Why? What do they do? Oh let me tell you! I love developing software, not least because we (as an industry) have not yet figured out how to software. We know it’s powerful, but not yet how powerful. Software is like …

Read moreIt’s Atomist Time!

Tags abstraction, atomist, dependency management, magic, process

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