Confusing Process Stages With Bounded Contexts

Breaking a large system down into smaller pieces gives teams the autonomy to…

Designing For Team Autonomy: Tools For Business & Technical Architecture Alignment

Optimising Team Boundaries For Iteration Is Fundamental To Agile

Getting Programmers To Agree

Programmers are on-par with politicians when it comes to fiercely debating and rarely reaching agreement — we…

My 3 Biggest Hiring Mistakes

As a community, or at-least on my twitter feed echo-chamber, we do love a good moan about broken hiring…

Learning, Teaching & Selling DDD With The Infographic

Since making the mistake of writing a DDD book, I now get lots of people asking me how they can sell the benefits of DDD to management, how they can teach it to their teams, and even how they can make sense of it themselves.



I know…

Digital Transformation…. The Hard Parts

Tech is overflowing with organisations wildly proclaiming how much more digital they will…

Which 3 Coding Habits Have You Come to Love?

As more grey hairs start to appear on my head, more contentious opinions on the art of programming start to develop inside it. And I’ve noticed three of those opinions that just keep getting stronger. Either I’m completely wrong (did happen once), or…

Random Thoughts on Hiring

With a flurry of passionate blog posts on the blogosphere recently and a bit of on-the-job action, the topic of hiring has been filling my shallow, little mind with many deep thoughts of late.



So In this post, I’m going to throw lots of random thoughts at you. I’m not saying…

Agile Retrospectives: Ceremony or Sensation?

You put your left leg in, your left leg out. In, out, in, out, you shake it all about. You do the Hokey Cokey and you….. and then two weeks later you have another retrospective.



Just like the Hokey Cokey, many cynics view retrospectives as a bit of…