Thoughts from Agile India 2025 — the finaleI recently presented at and attended Agile India 2025, the last one.1d ago1d ago
DIY leadership development: Learn how the business worksUnderstand how the business works in terms of business model, key products, and key business processes.Mar 18Mar 18
Platform migration size vs Predictability of migration effort vs Platform customer satisfactionThe larger the platform migration, the more predictable it needs to be to maintain customer satisfaction. Small migrations are both…Mar 16Mar 16
Bad idea: “Artificial Intelligence” automatically improves productivity.AI improves productivity by enabling automation of what could not be previously automated.Feb 71Feb 71
Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity.As I’ve said previously, productivity is the ratio of the value of Impact to the cost of Effort.Jan 256Jan 256
Bad idea: Developer experience is equivalent to productivityThe SPACE paper, referencing an earlier Microsoft paper, argues for the importance of considering perceived productivity. This is…Jan 94Jan 94
4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND ExitKent Beck’s 2016 3X model (Explore, Expand, Extract) is essentially a different way of expressing Theodore Levitt’s 1965 product life…Jan 11Jan 11
Bad idea: You can’t measure productivityThe key points from Martin Fowler’s 2003 article “Cannot Measure Productivity”:Dec 14, 202412Dec 14, 202412
Bad ideas about software product development productivityI’m collecting bad ideas about software product development productivity:Dec 12, 20242Dec 12, 20242