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bethcodes.bsky.social

Sr Staff Engineer supporting agile cultures that let developers build software well & help them learn how to. Mediating a new scientific revolution associated with the night dream of post-industrial society ze/hir/hirs

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The usual reason for the debate is that someone further up asked for a timeline. Rather than spending valuable time debating the unknowable, we can just make something up: it is equally accurate. Use the estimation time to build & derisk the project. Then just take a wild guess and triple it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

There is no reason to define the scope of the MVP before you start coding. Slice the project into functional slices and dark-launch each one. After each slice, ask “why is this not ready to launch?” If there is an answer, work on that slice next. If there is no reason, you have your MVP.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the true spirit of Pride Month: standing up for each other against the use of force.

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Anyone else notice that Google Docs’ grammar checker suddenly start being terrible at grammar?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

We desperately need people in Washington who understand tech without representing the interests of giant billionaire-owned corporations that want to crush their competition.

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The key characteristic of Agile development is delegated management. Any framework that offers full supervision to upper management is not Actually Agile. (definitions from Robert Austin: www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.h...)

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Our movements are advertisements for the world we would build if we get power.

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Government software can be good and we know how.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

“If you have one road, you don’t need a map” - @kevlin.bsky.social at #myConf

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A company that demands engineers do their job badly unless given permission to do it well is going to end up with the software it deserves.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky is for people who remember disenvoweling

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The usual reason for the debate is that someone further up asked for a timeline. Rather than spending valuable time debating the unknowable, we can just make something up: it is equally accurate. Use the estimation time to build & derisk the project. Then just take a wild guess and triple it.

There is no reason to define the scope of the MVP before you start coding. Slice the project into functional slices and dark-launch each one. After each slice, ask “why is this not ready to launch?” If there is an answer, work on that slice next. If there is no reason, you have your MVP.

This is the true spirit of Pride Month: standing up for each other against the use of force.

Anyone else notice that Google Docs’ grammar checker suddenly start being terrible at grammar?

We desperately need people in Washington who understand tech without representing the interests of giant billionaire-owned corporations that want to crush their competition.

The key characteristic of Agile development is delegated management. Any framework that offers full supervision to upper management is not Actually Agile. (definitions from Robert Austin: www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.h...)

Our movements are advertisements for the world we would build if we get power.

Government software can be good and we know how.

“If you have one road, you don’t need a map” - @kevlin.bsky.social at #myConf

A company that demands engineers do their job badly unless given permission to do it well is going to end up with the software it deserves.

Bluesky is for people who remember disenvoweling

When a “stand up” involves people working on different goals/projects reporting their status, that is just a status meeting.

Any change is an excuse to change

Whelp, this is horrifying.

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“the authority to care for each other”