Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There’s huge variety between those two extremes, and there’s also a point where too much focus on design and not enough on delivery is hugely counter-productive as well. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. Those people are your influencers. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

Engineering Culture 80

Engineering Culture Software Engineering Software Review Culture 80

Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

Building a suitable and sustainable platform is more than a technical challenge; it might also require a change in the way people work and sometimes new skills are needed. There can be a variety of reasons for starting a platform initiative with very different outcomes that don’t always go together well or can even be mutually exclusive.

Engineering 130

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

To me, this story is what DDD is really about: developing the design mindset of a modeller to drive product innovation and enable continuous delivery of value, involving frequent collaboration with domain experts. It’s the Share Pie story in chapter 8 of Eric Evans’ DDD book.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking.

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91