Find your happy place conference
Talking and listening to others helps ground your ideas and assumptions. Last weekend was Play4Agile 2025. It was another wonderful gathering of people at the… Read More »Find your happy place conference
There’s more to life than work
Teach people to integrate work and life together to avoid burnout. The hero and martyr culture is sadly being revived. This is not good. It… Read More »There’s more to life than work
Aim for evolvable
Make your work easy to change. Teach your people to make it easy to make changes to their work. They will not be able to… Read More »Aim for evolvable
Make learning experiential
Create opportunities for people to practice the thing you’re talking about. People learn what you teach them when they have an opportunity to practice what… Read More »Make learning experiential
Some manual testing is necessary
Automate repeats and explore options manually. I went too far in the last post on automated testing. I was in a hurry to get it… Read More »Some manual testing is necessary
Testing makes feedback easier
Always be adding tests for faster feedback. We always need feedback on our work. Is it the right colour, tone of voice, does it work… Read More »Testing makes feedback easier
Use small commits to focus your work
Small commits offer more safety than big ones in development. We should be teaching teams to work in small slices. As part of that they… Read More »Use small commits to focus your work
Solo work is slow work
Learn to collaborate instead of delegate for effective team work Students do lots and lots of solo work at university. This is to be expected.… Read More »Solo work is slow work
GitFlow is not the solution, use trunk-based development instead
Teaching people to use pull requests for development is a disservice. GitFlow is used by many in industry, and because of this is taught in… Read More »GitFlow is not the solution, use trunk-based development instead
Apply new ideas in small steps
Grow confidence in people by giving them one new concept at a time. Education is normally taught in a scaffolded manner. You learn one thing,… Read More »Apply new ideas in small steps