Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

Functional monitoring is a crucial part of any successful Continuous Delivery implementation. To help create an effective strategy for Functional Monitoring we developed the Functional Monitoring Quadrants. Technical metrics are helpful but might not tell the whole story. Functional Monitoring Quadrants.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. It can guid you through your first few cycles of discovery, strategy, and implementation and then you’ll be in a good place to guide yourself. The Strategy Cycle.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. As a business, the economics of this type of culture should tell you everything. There is a bigger pool of candidates?—?it’s You can contact me at any time.

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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.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. Once software engineers realized they might be awakened in the middle of the night if their code created a problem, they became very good at keeping bugs out of their code.

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