The most productive developer on a team is usually the one with the most knowledge of the system. Of the code, the business domain, the other software this code interacts with, and the people in the organization who can help. How did they get that knowledge? By working on the system. Weinberg remarks that when … Read more10x developer: work->knowledge->work
One way to be a 10x developer is to write the system, so you know more about it that anyone else. I call this person the “purple developer.”
automation changes the rules we play by Fast v Safe Tradeoffs are a fact of life. Choose between safety and speed, stability and flexibility. More of one sacrifices the other. fast or safe, we are somewhere on that spectrum I remember a time when this described our decisions about software deployments. Deployments caused problems, so we did fewer … Read moreFolding Tradeoff Space
A lot of us are using Slack now. Some of us are past the shiny and into misery, where we wish for the good old days of email and talking with our mouths. Let’s look at this technology thoughtfully, and see whether we can corral it into helpfulness. Dan North gave a great talk about … Read moreEffective Use of Slack