How conventional wisdom in software lifecycle management sets us up for failure, and what we can do to change the course. — So, you’ve just been handed the responsibility of maintaining an old piece of software, and guess what? It’s so tangled up, you’d think someone was knitting a scarf of bugs and glitches. But why does even the best-coded software seem to reach a point where upkeep becomes a herculean task…

The creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp has once again ignited a holy war, this time against TypeScript. — David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is known for being the creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp. However, he is also known for stirring up controversies such as “TDD is Dead.” Now, in his latest outburst, he has targeted TypeScript and left contributors high and dry.

Looking for an alternative in the subscription mess. — During the last months, we have been reading news about how streaming services have reached a plateau in their growth. During the same time, we have also seen how the number of streaming services has multiplied. And because of all this, their catalog has shrunk and the prices have increased. …

The Silent Saboteur in Your Team — You’ve embraced Agile. Your team holds regular stand-ups, prioritizes backlogs, and strives for continuous improvement. But what if the very people who appear to champion these processes are the ones undermining them? The wolf in the proverbial Agile sheep’s clothing: The Silent Saboteur in your team. Have you considered that…

When ‘Just Trying’ Turns Into ‘Just Paying’: An Adobe Adventure — They say you should try everything once, except for skydiving without a parachute or signing up for Adobe’s AI generation tools. My journey into the world of artificial intelligence had a simple next step: try Adobe’s AI tool in Photoshop Beta, evaluate its performance, and decide whether to keep it…

No matter how tight a deadline may be, you can always deliver on the date! — As Carl Sagan once said, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” and that’s what I’ll provide. In fact, the most incredible thing is that once you’ve read this article, you’ll find it completely evident and wonder why you hadn’t seen it before. Now let’s discuss the theory, what we believe we…

Exploring the confluence of psychology and modern software methodologies: a fresh, game-changing approach. — How many companies are trying to implement Agile only to end up with a half-baked Agile implementation? How is it that almost twenty years later, we still don’t have solid frameworks and coaches that still don’t achieve fully agile transformations? What if the problem is the focus, and how do…

Let’s update the 12 Step Test questions from Joel Spolsky from Trello and Stack Overflow with the latests discoveries from software development. — The last week, I published an article revisiting the twelve steps for better code from Joel Spolsky, co-creator of Slack and Trello. Although those steps were very significant twenty-three years ago, they were just a glimpse of the techniques that were still to come from Lean and Continuous Delivery. Instead…

Learn about the test that created Trello and Stack Overflow. — Almost 23 years ago, on August 9th, Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Trello, wrote a list of 12 questions that each software development team should follow. The list was simple, and judging for his success, effective. The list of 12 questions was fast to answer —roughly three minutes…