Archive - Agility!

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 •

October 2024

and other inefficiencies

Oct 4, 2024 •

September 2024

That bogus “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” quote was never uttered by Henry Ford.

Sep 23, 2024 •

Gall's Law is an essential observation about systems (not just software systems, but organizational ones as well, and it applies recursively).

Sep 4, 2024 •

August 2024

Quick take: Dump the Meetings

Nobody in history has gotten better at software development by having more meetings.

Aug 26, 2024 •

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