The other day I was talking with one of my directs. We ended up discussing something we’ve both learned over the years. When execution works, the environment is quiet. Not slow. Not passive. Quiet. Execution happens. People work together. Nothing feels heavy. You sort of question if there’s management in all this or their very existence. That’s a good thing. […]
Software development involves both creating and maintaining systems. Once you put anything into production, reliability becomes critical. When your systems are not reliable, you face issues in various ways. If you are a SaaS company, you could lose customers. Nobody wants their business to stop because of your reliability problems. They will go to the competition. In B2C, customers cannot […]
In my last post, I criticized agile frameworks for bringing too much complexity with too little impact. What was meant to make teams more adaptive often ends up doing the opposite. They slow engineers down with rituals that add ceremony but not value. So, what’s the alternative? In my view, most engineers don’t struggle with the principles of agility. People […]
Recently, I received an e-mail from Scrum Alliance. My Scrum Master Certificate has expired. As expected, the e-mail was suggesting to get certified again, a friendly nudge to stay relevant. But that message made me pause. Why was I supposed to pay again to keep something that no longer felt valuable? Agile frameworks no longer deliver what they are supposed […]
I have been working on this data discovery tool for a while, and it keeps showing me how messy our systems really are. The idea behind it is simple. Crawl every database we have, pull every table and column, match things that look the same across Postgres, Hive and Redshift, and then put everything in one place. One stop shop […]