Yak Shaving is: doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done.
The name has obscure roots and doesn’t matter; the key is that it makes you think, “Why would you do that?”
(This post continues from the Royal Yak, and concludes the series A Taxonomy of Yaks.)
When we improve how we work, we make tasks faster. We make progress smoother. This is magnified when we improve how all our team members work, or our whole community. Now and then, though…
The inaugural REdeployConf wrapped up yesterday (as I write this). I’m already feeling withdrawal from…
In previous posts, we’ve seen how Atomist can understand and modify…
This has been a big week for Atomist: our official coming out. We’ve revamped our web site to lay out our vision of…
Gene’s infectious energy and passion for improving how we practice our craft as software people are…
In previous posts, I’ve written about better project creation and evolution, and Atomist out of the box features like our Slack lifecycle support. Today I’m excited to share Atomist’s bigger vision around Development Automation.
A lot of us are using Slack now. Some of us are past the shiny and into misery, where we wish for the good old days of email and talking with our mouths.
Let’s look at this technology thoughtfully, and see whether we can corral it into helpfulness. Dan North gave…
It has been an incredible year helping improve the state of software delivery in our world. A little over a year ago, Atomist was in early access, and a lot has happened since then.
Some of the highlights:
At this year’s GitHub Universe — the first after Microsoft announced its intention to acquire GitHub — the message is that the future of software will have “developers at the center.” At Atomist, we…
