I was talking to a colleague yesterday, smart guy, basically been focusing on systems level architecture and is maneuvering his employer in…
This is my fall-back group format when facilitating kata. Timeframe: 60m total - 45-50m exercise, 10-15m retrospective Group Size: 6-1…
When I facilitate a kata session with a group of developers, sometimes I like to mix it up a little. If the room feels like it’s getting a…
The Spaces Between On teams that are newly cross-functional, or in places with waterfallish reflexes, the coaching opportunities lie in…
When I look back at my career, I’ve been gathering ideas about agile from others since the manifesto. Testing versus checking. Last…
Why do we continue to separate the design of a product from its implementation? When we design a product in one place with one group of…
When disciplines in software development are so segregated, those outside a discipline may think only of the final result. Developers type…
There Is No Agility Without Technical Agility As we wish to adapt continually to an ever-shifting set of stakeholder needs, it is vital that…
Many words have been written about the biases in "AI" training datasets. I last blogged publicly on this topic about 6 years ago, and it…
Introduction Being extraordinary, it's a good feeling. My first electronic enhancement was a calculator. Forget long arithmetic, this was…
This post has moved, I have renamed it. Read the post here - What Is A Developer? I've been using the word "bionic" for a few years now as…
Back in June, I was playing with structured semantics as a way to interact with an LLM for applications. Today, I watched a video that made…
London and Chicago Style TDD, A Design Perspective In the field of TDD, two primary schools of thought have emerged, that are often used in…
Today, in "building LLM agents is hard". I'm experimenting with a novel problem-solving model using the little Qwen2.5 14B parameter model…
A group of us sat down to do the Bowling Kata the other day, to see if we could get the GenAI to do the implementation as we wrote the spec…
I'm talking to more people lately who are fearful for their profession in an age of AI. I keep coming back to "The Map Is Not The Territory…
Following up on yesterday's post , we can't digitize empathy, feeling, etc. I have a certain kind of person that starts looking at me funny…
The seed for this article series is here , it's long and a bit ranty, but I wanted to draw a bunch of ideas into one place that we could…
Gen AI in Software Development, Not Coding 1 I feel like I want to do a "stop talking about Gen AI generating code" series. Maybe I'll just…
Thanks to a colleague, I came across this article today, and it's been energizing. The author and his editors at O'Reilly have put together…