Friendgineers: Shallow hurry is an insidious disease, but there is a cure.
Friendgineers: Code coverage is useful. Understanding your signals is important. And be careful what you measure.
#friendgineers #coverage #biases
Friendgineers: Time is hard. When you find out about something is just as important as when it actually happened. So you need to track ALL of the details.
Friendgineers: Knowing where you're going and how far along the path you are is important. So is knowing where to step next. You need to balance both to get there.
#friendgineers #milestones #steppingstones
Friendgineers: Even if you can't eliminate complexity, you can keep your cognitive load down
#friendgineers #cognitiveload #complexity
Friendgineers: Monolith vs Microservice is NOT (only) an architecture question.
#friendgineers #monolith #microservice #deploy
Friendgineers: How you count is just as important as what you count.
Friendgineers: A little copying is better than a little dependecy
#friendgineers #inequality #dependecy
Friendgineers: Miles Davis is an amazing jazz player. And some of his best ideas apply to software development. Like what you do next.
Friendgineers: Tests don't just test different things, they also have different purposes.
#friendgineers #testing #testdrivendevelopment
Friendgineers: A stable release is important. But we should always have stability.
Friendgineers: Is that a best practice or an average practice? Eventually what was a best practice in one situation turns into an average practice for the industry.
Friendgineers: We all use models, but as George Box said, "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
Friendgineers: It's important to get your attribution right. Even if your point is still valid
Friendgineers: There's a big difference between Permission, Approval, and Feedback
Friendgineers: It's easy to write code the computer understands. The trick is to write code YOU understand 2 weeks later.
Friendgineers: Enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind
Friendgineers: User stories are not about what to do, they're about how to add value.
#friendgineers #userstories #valueproposition
Friendgineers: The audience is listening
#friendgineers #context #jargon
Friendgineers: What can we learn from a tailstrike?
#friendgineers #incidentresponse