Practical Handbook for Product Developers – First Steps: Idea, Validation, MVP – How to Decide What Goes In and What Stays Out of the MVP?

An MVP isn’t about building less, but building only what proves your solution works. Learn how to decide which features are truly essential — and which…

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June 2025

TDD When You Don’t Know What to Build

How do you test what hasn’t been built… when you don’t even know what you're building? What if the only thing we know is the problem, not the solution?

Jun 24

Leverage Communities to Spread Better Practices

Communities (meetups, Slack groups, conferences, internal guilds, blog posts, newsletters) are where practices propagate. Not by mandate or theory, but…

Jun 17

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XP Practices, Not AI, Drive the Real Gains

AI coding assistants are everywhere now—but it doesn't look like the biggest productivity boost many teams are seeing is from AI—it's something else…

Jun 10

May 2025

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Let's state a clear distinction between what each developer should focus on individually—and what the team must enable and uphold collectively.

May 27

Individuals practice Trunk-Based Development, teams practice Continuous Integration

Let's state a clear distinction between what each developer should focus on individually—and what the team must enable and uphold collectively.

May 20

If it is not done in source-control, it is not worth doing

Anything that lives outside source control is invisible by default. It is critically important to include every single piece of work that constitute our…

May 13

Code Review approaches for Trunk-Based Development

When your team adopts Trunk-Based Development, one thing becomes immediately clear: traditional, heavy PR processes don’t fit. TBD thrives on small…

May 6

April 2025

Fail Fast

In this fast-paced world, indecision and over-planning are bigger risks than launching something imperfect. That’s where the fail fast philosophy…

Apr 15

"Deleting Code" Culture

When we talk about software improvement, we often talk about what we can add: new features, new tools, new abstractions. But sometimes, the most…

Apr 8

Learning Culture and Taking Risks

Many organizations claim to value learning, but in reality, they create environments where employees feel pressured to have the right answers and avoid…

Apr 1

March 2025

Best Simple System for Now

Best Simple System for Now (BSSN) approach advocates for creating the simplest functional solution today and iterating when necessary. This method…

Mar 25