Strong opinions, strongly held

In these essays, I share my personal experiences and beliefs about software engineering and technical team management.

• Techniques for incremental software delivery

  Being able to deliver incrementally is a cornerstone of healthy development teams.

• Pair programming

  The best way to create a virtuous circle of high-performing software teams.

• Coding is like cooking

  Writing software is just like working on a kitchen.

• The Boy Scout rule

  One of my guiding principles of my software development approach.

• Migrations

  The technical complexity of data migrations shouldn't be underestimated.

• Building a remote team

  My experience creating a remote high-performing team.

• Managing software complexity

  A high level overview of Domain Driven Design for developers.

• My favorite software engineering books (I)

  The classics that have shaped my approach to computer programming.

• Agile stand-ups

  Most teams do not get the most out of daily stand-ups. Let's explore why.

• Deployments on Friday

  Healthy teams don't fear a Friday afternoon deploy