Half tech strategist, half software therapist. I fix what's broken in your teams, tech & timelines. Fractional CTO. Microsoft MVP. benday.com
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Mar 13
Two kinds of thinking:
Extractive: "How do I get more from what I have?"
Generative: "What could this become?"
Most orgs drifted extractive without realizing it. Every metric looks fine while the soul of the place shrivels.
New post — first in a series.
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Apr 13
Quality is everyone's job. Not a phase. Not a department. Not a gate at the end. Everyone every day.
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Apr 10
Find a way for them to change without changing. People don't resist improvement. They resist being told they're doing it wrong.
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Apr 8
Your developers used to care. Now they just do what they're told. That's not a performance problem. That's a leadership problem.
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Apr 6
If your company has been profitable for 10 years but can't ship new capabilities your success has probably calcified into your architecture.
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Apr 3
Stop estimating. Start counting. How many items did your team finish last week? That number tells you more than any story point debate ever will.
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Apr 1
For 20 years we said 'the code IS the documentation.' AI agents don't get context from code. The documentation renaissance is coming.
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Mar 30
'Solving the DevOps problem' isn't actually a DevOps problem. It's an architecture problem wearing a DevOps hat.
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Mar 27
Your developers are doing 'clever' things with Entity Framework. In software 'clever' is not a compliment.
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Mar 25
'We're 65% confident it ships by March 15. 85% confident by March 22.' That's a conversation stakeholders can actually act on.
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Mar 23
A branch is an integration credit card. You will pay eventually. The longer you carry the balance the worse the interest.
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Mar 20
You have 5 product backlogs and 5 developers. You think you have 5 teams. You have 1 team with 5 bosses who can't see each other's demands.
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Mar 18
Technical debt is compound interest. The $25k fix becomes $100k because every layer you peel back exposes another layer underneath.
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Mar 16
Angela Dugan (@ChicagoALM ) and @benday discuss how to Master the Human Factors in Engineering. Hands-on lab day at #VSLive is in full swing!
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Mar 16
The core of project management isn't 'management' at all. It's delivery.
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Mar 14
Brittleness increases when redundancy gets optimized away. Just a thought.
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Mar 13
Your app is in version control. Your database isn't. Which version of the database goes with which version of the app? Nobody knows.
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Mar 11
Your AI agents are writing code your team can't maintain. Working beautifully... until it doesn't. I call it Comprehension Debt.
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Mar 9
AI helps you go faster. If your development process has problems it just makes the problems come at you faster.
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