This article is part of a series of articles related to how the software development industry seem to have some difficulties adopting research findings. You can read the introduction in the article: The Obsession with Dev-Fu and process puritanism to get a bit of context. In the first deep dive…

This article is part of a series of articles related to how the software development industry seem to have some difficulties adopting research findings. You can read the introductory article: The Obsession with Dev-Fu and process puritanism (if you haven’t already) to get a bit of context. In this article…

One thing I have recently realized is that we, as a profession, fall into the trap of focusing on how-we-do-our-work looks, instead of what we actually produce. It is reminiscent to Kung Fu and its emphasis on aesthetics, tradition and purity. We even sometimes add the suffix Fu, when we…

Software Developers, especially experienced, are currently in short supply. The lack of software developers acts as a bottleneck for producing software solutions. To address this issue, different mitigation strategies and processes are often introduced, to ensure “high utilization” and “high efficiency” of the software developers’ perceived primary expertise: “writing code.” …

Software Development is involved in almost any transformation, strategy implementation or move forward for any business or organization. More than ever before the bad decisions of software developers can stifle the best laid plans, strategies or initiatives. In this article I outline my view on the modern role of most…

February 13th I was at SwitchON 2020 in Stockholm. At the conference I got to deliver my talk “Value Driven Technical Decisions in Software Development” for the first time in public. In this post I outline the talk as well as provide (a lot) more detail and context to the…