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Escaping the Feature Factory
We spent the last decade obsessing over speed. We adopted Agile, we SCRUMmed, did the DevOps, and we measured our success by velocity and deployment frequency. For the most part, this was a necessary evolution. Business moves too fast for waterfall. Waterfall did have some benefits as well, but that maybe my age and only…
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Engineering doesn’t solve problems…
We just trade them in for newer, more interesting ones. And that’s our real job. You ever spend a week with your team fixing a critical system, finally push the fix live and feel that wave of relief? Only to get a Slack message two months later. “Hey, weird question. Ever since we deployed that…
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The Low-Hanging Fruit Diet: Nutritionally Deficient in Strategic Value
“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goals.” I’m not sure who pointed me in the the direction of Robert Brault, but I love that quote. This resonates with me on different levels. If I hear low hanging fruit one more time, I’m going to scream!…
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What we have done is to make it dramatically easier to navigate the corporate ladder
Conways Law Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure — Melvin E. Conway. I’ve blogged previously on the topic of Technical Debt and ways to prevent and or overcome it. I’ve used my brilliant PowerPoint skills for pictures like this:…
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„Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”
„Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?” Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive…
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LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft
LinkedIn acquired by Microsoft for a whopping $26.1 billion. But why? LinkedIn is essentially the Facebook of the business world, and the digital repository of most of the world’s resumes. LinkedIn has roughly 100 million members in Europe of a total of 450 million. Very few people lie on their public view-able and controllable resume.…