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Big-batch releases, coordinated and controlled by a central intelligence, fail, and fail frequently. Several aspects of this are fascinating, because of the interplay of hard mathematical reality with human frailty.

When large teams struggle with trunk-based development (TBD) or continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), a good strategy is to re-orient how the teams face "backsteps", moments in our workflow where a discovery

A couple of days back, I tweeted about SAFe. It created some stir on the timeline, which was great, as I got to see a lot of perspectives. I want

Standup BraindumpThe standup is a short recurring meeting used to (re-)focus the team-mind on effectively moving stories through our workflow. Here's my recommended approach to having standups be useful and

I was recently asked, by two different groups, two seemingly different questions, but I gave them both the same answer: Collaboration, Complication, and Continuity. Let's mull that situation over. Folks,

Microtest TDD is a gray-box testing approach, neither entirely inside nor outside the code it tests. Let's talk that over. Before we dive in:Black lives matter.Stay safe, stay strong, stay

Today, a basic topic: Model/View, the Desktop and TDD.Some geeky respite, and enjoy. We got a lotta work waiting for us after this break.Stay safe.Stay strong.Stay kind.Stay angry.Black lives matter.Demand

The economic aspects of microtest TDD are inextricably tied to the operational aspects of it. If we concentrate only on the artifacts involved, we will lose the picture and misunderstand

I want to talk about this thing where you see someone on stage/screen presenting material about geekery, you decide you're attracted, and you send them mail or dm hitting on

As a hardcore user of TDD and refactoring, there are a number of what I think of as "second tier" refactorings that I use quite frequently. In one's first intro

I think of my style of coding as "microtest TDD". That can be misleading for folks, so let's take a walk over a few of the ideas, implicit and explicit,

Let's talk about steps and value.Out in the world, folks make a lot of decisions involving these ideas, they reason about them. We want to make sure our reasoning is