My talk from @JSConfUS 2019 "TDCD: Test Driven Component Development" is live!

Here's all that matters when it comes to Agile—everything else is complete crap: "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it" It's entirely about learning based on experience. Uncovering, not uncovered. "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" Rituals, ceremonies, Sprints, SMs, POs, various meetings. NONE of that is useful. Dump it all. Talk to people. Get feedback. Pay attention. "Working software" Anything that's not directly putting working software into customer's hands is just waste. Stop it. "Responding to change over following a plan" We learn as we work, we adapt based on what we learn. That's it. Anybody who says "Agile" is anything other than that is selling you snake oil. Any corporation that's calling anything other than the above "Agile" is either delusional or evil.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

"Agile" is not a code word for some rigid corporate process. It's in the dictionary. It means flexible, nimble, &c. Look it up!

if your brother put dog poo in your milkshake, your problem is not with milkshakes. "Agile is terrible and must die" posts are really about the poo and the brother, but they're written as if all milkshakes are poo milkshakes.

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"Technical Debt" stems from doing the best job you possibly can, but later on you learn something that makes that code have a large 🤮 factor. It's inevitable. As Ward Cunningham says, refactor the code by replacing it with the code you would have written if you know what you now now. Bugs are just crappy programming (e.g. without sufficient automated unit tests), not technical debt.

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PARENTS: Be sure to check your kids' candy bars for Next.js 14 server actions. My four-year-old nearly got write access to the production db

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Call for Proposals for JSConf Colombia 2023 - 10th anniversary and Final edition is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted another session! sessionize.com/jsconf-colomb…

Call for Proposals for JSConf Colombia 2023 - 10th anniversary and Final edition is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/jsconf-colomb…

A: Show me data that proves that mob/ensemble programming works. B: Show me data that proves that whatever you're doing now works! A: Erm…

Henrick Kniberg's picture on the left is often used to illustrate agile dev, but I think it's fundamentally misleading. It's an evolution, not a radical change to the type of vehicle. I prefer the picture on the right. 1/1

might be a nuclear take, but I’d wager more harm is done by devs who love to code & treat their job like a hobby (where they solve fun code puzzles instead of solving their users’ immediate needs) than by devs who do it for the paycheck

I think one of the most destructive myths in software is that it costs more or takes longer to develop higher-quality code. IME, the higher the quality, the faster the development goes. You cannot be fast if you can't trust your code.