How do we go on the “offensive” leaving behind what has only become a “defensive” effort to save our day from becoming unproductive? Leaving us at the end of the day feeling like we need to make up some time after work or the weekend This post will be a…

Next time I needed this info, I just wanted to make sure that I have the links I need concerning the Accelerate book and Software Delivery Performance. So I will use this page to continue to add info about these resources. The links below really are all related as the…

Suggestions Around Building a Good Development Team in Parallel to Building a Good Product I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits — Kent Beck. Behind any project there has to be processes in place to build a culture of good coding habits for developers…

Mainline Workflow “Once you achieve a certain frequency of releases, around once a week or so, it no longer makes sense to branch for release.” — Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation tl;dr I want to do a tl;dr of a workflow, that two years ago seemed insane…

#note2self Thanks to Andrew Cavanagh for proofing this and Matt Lantz Basically this skeleton tool was something I made to help out my day to day work and hopefully it will come in handy for others writing PHP Command Line Tools. You can get to the repo here. Since I…

Meetings are needed, most of them at least, and when I worked with a team that was all in the same timezone I was easily able to say, “Between 1–4 I am coding/focusing” or “Between 6am and 9am” I am coding. …

This is something we have been doing a lot for a team I am on, and I feel that Laravel 5.4 Slack feature might be more than I need in most cases like this one. …

This article can be listened too here or in your favorite podcast player Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new features. We still need to give the product owners, or the people with the money, a sense…