Fixing tech debt is never a Jira ticket
Jon Ayre One of the most common complaints from development teams is that they're never given time to address technical debt. Every ticket is a feature change or bug fix, and never…
Methods
Tearing down the software development walls
In software development, the handoff of work from Product Manager to Engineer to QA was always an anti-pattern. It's a shame it's taken AI to wake people up to that…
The software engineer is dead, long live the software engineer!
The IT industry is only ever as good as the software it produces. There has always been great software, and there has also always been a lot of bad software.
More haste less speed, the road to software purgatory
Think code quality doesn't matter anymore now AI agents are here? Think all that early speed is sustainable? You're in for a nasty surprise.
To document, or not to document, that is the prompt
If your code is clean, your documentation doesn't need to describe it. Anyone who needs to understand the code should read it directly. Anyone who can't read it won't need…
In defence of clean code – the engineer’s perspective
This is the story of a major system refactor completed in just one day. 54 files affected. Over 1000 lines of code changed. All tests passed first time. Pushed to…
Why “agile, lean or waterfall” is the wrong question
A pointless war of words is being waged, and there can be no winners. This is the battle of methods, and its combatants are fighting over the wrong question.