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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?
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…
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…

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.
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.
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…
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…

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…
"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…
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…

March 2025

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