Is project management part of agility? Or is agile and project management in an unsolvable conflict? We discuss about project management vs agility, starting from a tweet by Thierry de Pauw and the replies he got: https://twitter.com/tdpauw/status/1609596163564490756?t=8O2-EOXOwR-HT1v0ywGejg&s=09. We also discuss Johanna Rothman’s article “How To Recognize Effective Project and Program Management” https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/01/how-to-recognize-effective-project-and-program-management/

Happy New Year 2023 everyone! Since it’s a new year, we thought about starting it with a commentary and analysis on software development trends. Relevant links:

It’s not a secret that we love learning! In this video, Alex recaps his top learnings from 2022. Relevant links:

Here’s a hypothesis: all software development problems have multiple solutions on a socio-technical continuum. Find out more in the video :).

Samir Talwar is a software engineer, one of the fastest programmers we know, currently working at Digital Asset in Zurich. We invited him to discuss about his experiences with a startup, starting from his articles on what he learned: https://monospacedmonologues.com/2022/04/lessons-from-a-failed-startup–introduction/.

A chat between Alex Bolboaca and Amitai Schleier about software development careers, music, discipline, and practices.

On 31st August, Dan North posted a few tweets critiquing the Clean Code book. We react to those tweets and discuss what it means to have an opinionated school of software development – and why it’s important. The tweets in question: Check out our Clean Code learning program. It helps you understand the reasons for