1. Forest vs. Desert; Peacetime vs. Wartime
    Dec 2024 — Kent Beck's Forest & Desert strikes me as the software engineering version of the Peacetime/Wartime CEO dichotomy.
  2. I Don't Believe in Backlogs
    Aug 2021 — A haiku.
  3. You Shall Know Our Velocity
    May 2021 — Three thousand deploys a year isn't just a vanity metric.
  4. Goodbye Agile, Hello Agility
    Feb 2021 — A story about why (and a little bit of how) we adopted Kanban.
  5. Ruthless Prioritization
    Jul 2020 — A story about hiring good people and getting out of their way.