Agility!
Allen HolubThoughts on better ways to build software.
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Lead Time
One of the best metrics I know is Lead Time: The time between when the need for a discrete change/addition becomes known to the organization, not the team, and when that change is delivered to users/customers. It measures the entire system...
Talk to People. Get Some Help!
I just had a conversation with a wide-eyed idealist programmer who was working alone (using an AI, but that's still alone) creating an app. He had no customers, not even potential ones, just a "great idea!" He'd spent months (and burned thr...
The MVP Is Dead
The notion of an MVP has gone the way of Agile. It started out as a valuable, well-defined (and useful) technical term, but has been transmogrified into complete nonsense by people who have no idea what they're talking about, which doesn't...
Adding Features Makes Your Product Worse
One hallmark of a lousy app is that it's chock full of features. A good app does one critical and necessary thing well. A pile of features typically does nothing but add clutter and make the app harder to use.
You cannot compete by add...
“Data Processing” Is An Antique
Back in the 1980's, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, people defined programs as data flowing between multiple processing units or functions, each manipulating or otherwise using the data as it passed through. Languages like COBOL supported...
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