The discussion of productivity metrics is ignoring fundamental issues with numbers and metrics in general, such as: But if we can’t measure, what can we do in a business environment to make decisions? We are discussing all these things and more in a fascinating conversation touching on multiple domains that understood metrics aren’t all they …
We continue our analysis of McKinsey’s method on measuring developer productivity with a commentary to the reactions of Kent Beck, Gergely Orosz, and Dan North. Links:
McKinsey is stating in a recent article that we can measure developer productivity. The article has made the rounds on the internet, and we plan to dive deeper into this topic. But first, we look into the article and offer our opinion and commentary. Links:
An attempt to offer approaches and techniques to improve your happiness at work – or at least to reduce your discontent. Links:
In a recent paper, a Google research team details how they empirically determined the types of technical debt and ways to manage it inside the organization. The ideas in the paper bear a very close resemblance with Usable Software Design, in that the engineers are interviewed about the challenges they face with the design and …
Google Technical Debt approach vs. Usable Software Design Read More »
Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, with 20 years of leadership experience, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the Beyond Budgeting movement and has been heading up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company. Equinor realized that traditional leadership and management practices no longer work …
Beyond Budgeting by Bjarte Bogsnes @ Agility Summit 2020 Read More »
Most of the attention in software architecture is given to new styles (eg. microservices, serverless) or technology changes. Too little attention is given to the process of creating, evolving, and maintaining the architectural models and decisions. Yet this process is immensely valuable since with the right process you can adopt innumerable architectural styles and adapt …
Fitness and Workout for Software Architecture Talk Read More »
In which we realize that proponents of strong types focus a lot on the mathematical constructs and have a blind spot for the other superpower of code designers: naming.
Alex offers some predictions for the evolution of AI in the next months. As usual, predictions can be wrong, but they are useful for conversations. Links:
Prompted by an article about 5 types of architectural diagrams optimized for different audiences, we look into the things that are needed from architectural diagrams, and how they compare between the UML, agile, C4, and this new model. Links:
