A project orientation robs your engineers of Pride of Workmanship
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Show me the tests
Feelings are an important part of engineering. But they don’t replace automated tests.
What your data team should be hiding from you - the database
Most developers shouldn’t know or care about the database technologies.
Deployments not Releases
Turn releases into something for Marketing, not Engineering
We’ll speed up by splitting off a team to handle tickets, now we’re slower
Trying to close more tickets “doesn’t scale”
It’s the system, st*pid
If management wants different outcomes, only they can change the system.
Technical Debt is not a Technical Problem
Known or unknown, the thing about technical debt that leadership needs to understand.
Agile Abuse
Agile is not to control, measure, or micromanage teams.