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Workplace toxicity and trigger words original ↗

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AI and me original ↗

11 Sept 2025

A Broad and Shallow Introduction to Unit Testing original ↗

3 Jul 2025

Things To Come(?)original ↗

9 Jan 2025

2024

Template-Based Development Then and Now original ↗

16 May 2024

A conversation with my rubber duck concerning the linearity of time and other impossible things, plus a little about test-driven development and refactoring original ↗

2 May 2024

Random musings on the Agile Manifesto original ↗

8 Apr 2024

Induced Work original ↗

23 Mar 2024

2023

A sidelong view of organizational transformation failure original ↗

19 Oct 2023

Mastering the keyboard original ↗

17 Oct 2023

They don’t pay us to write tests original ↗

17 Oct 2023

Focus on Delivery original ↗

2 Oct 2023

Institutionalized Workarounds original ↗

1 Oct 2023

My personal quest for a UML diagramming tool original ↗

26 Jul 2023

Of Cockroaches and Kings original ↗

13 Feb 2023

2022

Poor Misunderstood COBOL original ↗

10 Dec 2022

The THX 1138 Rule original ↗

22 Nov 2022

Where to Find Prominent Voices in Software Other Than Twitter original ↗

4 Nov 2022

Ten Landing Pages in Five Minutes original ↗

28 Oct 2022

2021

Key Skills for Software Development original ↗

14 Jul 2021

What’s our focus for improvement?original ↗

14 Jul 2021

What if people always spoke the way they do at work?original ↗

13 Jul 2021

How we think about recruiting original ↗

9 Jul 2021

Scrum in quotes original ↗

7 Jul 2021

An incentive to collaborate original ↗

3 Jul 2021

Discipline original ↗

17 Jun 2021

En casa del herrero, cuchillo de madera original ↗

15 Jun 2021

The best agile environments I’ve seen original ↗

11 Jun 2021

What’s a time-box?original ↗

10 Jun 2021

Product-Aligned Software Teams original ↗

17 May 2021

The Refried Beans of Agile original ↗

15 May 2021

Tips for Teleconferencing original ↗

15 May 2021

Tactical Agile original ↗

22 Apr 2021

COBOL: Not only for mainframes original ↗

6 Mar 2021

Whither Tuckman?original ↗

26 Feb 2021

Code Freeze 2021: Mob Programming Workshop original ↗

25 Feb 2021

Terminal Velocity for Agile Teams original ↗

7 Feb 2021

Pain today, gain tomorrow?original ↗

5 Feb 2021

Cultural Divide and Implications for Tools and Practices: Mainframe vs. Distributed original ↗

26 Jan 2021

In an Ideal World original ↗

23 Jan 2021

Notation and Thought in Unit Testing original ↗

17 Jan 2021

Microtests and Unit Tests for z/OS Applictions original ↗

12 Jan 2021

2020

Cobol Rising original ↗

24 Dec 2020

The Problem with Metaphor original ↗

14 Oct 2020

Collaboration original ↗

9 Oct 2020

Scrum pain in large organizations original ↗

18 Sept 2020

Gilded Rose: Read by Refactoring original ↗

10 Sept 2020

80/20 Skills original ↗

29 Jul 2020

Remote work backlash original ↗

27 Jul 2020

What happened to the test automation pyramid?original ↗

23 Jun 2020

Traffic original ↗

16 Jun 2020

Design by Contract original ↗

12 Jun 2020

Refactoring the Hard Way, Part 2 original ↗

3 Jun 2020

Where does all the bad code come from?original ↗

24 May 2020

Refactoring the Hard Way, Part 1 original ↗

16 May 2020

Live online training: What’s different about it?original ↗

30 Apr 2020

Favor resiliency over prevention original ↗

29 Apr 2020

Refactor Anyway original ↗

26 Apr 2020

Remote Mob Programming: Lessons from This Week original ↗

24 Apr 2020

Handling Unplanned Work (Webinar)original ↗

19 Apr 2020

Code Katas original ↗

18 Apr 2020

It’s time to re-group and prepare for the upturn original ↗

16 Apr 2020

COBOL is not the problem original ↗

13 Apr 2020

Effective Distributed Collaborative Work original ↗

10 Apr 2020

The Curious Incident of the Magnetic Scotty Dogs in the Night-Time original ↗

7 Mar 2020

2019

Against TDD original ↗

29 Sept 2019

Reducing process overhead in Scrum original ↗

18 Jul 2019

English for English speakers original ↗

9 Jul 2019

What’s the cost of interrupting developers?original ↗

8 Jul 2019

Simulating an ALU in F#original ↗

21 May 2019

Show Me a Study original ↗

8 Apr 2019

Doing Scrum Perfectly original ↗

6 Apr 2019

TDD: Let the Tests Drive original ↗

1 Apr 2019

Technical Debt: The Man, the Metaphor, the Message original ↗

30 Mar 2019

Slack, Flow, and Continuous Improvement original ↗

30 Mar 2019

Introversion and Agile original ↗

24 Mar 2019

Recruiting and interviewing in confusing times original ↗

24 Feb 2019

I don’t know original ↗

7 Feb 2019

Annoying Travel Article original ↗

5 Feb 2019

Scrum as a belief system original ↗

31 Jan 2019

For the love of stress original ↗

26 Jan 2019

A different wall to bang our heads against original ↗

25 Jan 2019

2018

Balanced Professional Interest original ↗

12 Oct 2018

Seeking to Understand original ↗

10 Oct 2018

2016

Is collaboration really so difficult?original ↗

9 Jul 2016

Definitions and meanings original ↗

2 Jul 2016

The power of words original ↗

1 Jul 2016

Seeds of change original ↗

24 Jun 2016

Does your organization need an agile scaling framework?original ↗

21 Jun 2016

Do IT consultants want to be professionals?original ↗

12 Jun 2016

Looking at TDD through a lean-agile lens original ↗

26 May 2016

Where Agile goes to die original ↗

19 May 2016

What’s the problem with “What’s the problem with Scrum?”original ↗

14 Apr 2016

Choosing an Agile Scaling Framework original ↗

13 Apr 2016

Life imitates art (agile imitates Monty Python)original ↗

23 Feb 2016

My individual coaching assessment guide original ↗

23 Feb 2016

Beyond resistance original ↗

4 Feb 2016

Take a walk in the desert original ↗

3 Feb 2016

2015

Should coaching be treated as hourly contract labor?original ↗

15 Dec 2015

It’s getting harder to find bad examples original ↗

15 Dec 2015