Archive - Agility!

It works? Compared to what?

Whenever I talk about what I think of as effective ways to work, somebody always pushes back with “what we’re doing now works,” and "<some behemoth…

1 hr ago •

Security Theater

Yes, I am a human.

Aug 17 •

Two Models for New Companies

You do not need VC funding or a "great idea!!!!" Instead, reduce pain.

Aug 14 •

Learning from Project Runway

I was watching Project Runway last night (don't judge 😄), and this particular season's dysfunction-for-entertainment aligns closely with the problems…

Aug 13 •

July 2025

Throughput Accounting

Jul 17 •

Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering is a test-in-production strategy that's an essential aspect of distributed-architecture development, particularly microservices, but…

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Incentives working against change

Often, when people are baffled by why change can't happen, they don't consider incentive systems.

Jun 21 •

The four metrics that matter

People often ask what metrics can be used to assess the health of a process.

Jun 14 •

April 2025

March 2025

The Best Framework Is No Framework.

Scrum is in decline (thankfully), but the question is not what framework to replace it with, but rather, why have a framework at all?

Mar 16 •

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