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Clean Architecture
Architecture is the art of drawing lines. A cheeky definition. I think of architecture as how concerns are separated and the rules that govern them. The lines we draw tend to depict this perspective. Clean Architecture is my go-to for source code. He...
May 15, 20254 min read
Tech Lead to Thought Lead?
A reflection on my leadership journey
Oct 11, 20244 min read
MonoLISA
The art of crafting clean repositories
Jun 14, 20246 min read
Waterfall in sprints isn't Agile
I've worked in unstructured, Waterfall, and Agile software processes since 2009. One I found ineffective is 'Waterfall in sprints', confused as Agile. When I saw a meme about it, I realised it's a common Agile anti-pattern. Here, I'll unpack what I m...
Feb 1, 20245 min read
You Aren't Gonna Need It
The art of minimising overproduction
Nov 8, 20233 min read
Why I use the old school definition of story points
This is a republish of this article I wrote for OfferZen's blog. Story points are ubiquitous in the Agile world. If you ask two different Agile teams what they are, however, you’ll likely get different answers. Some say it represents complexity or ef...
Aug 2, 20236 min read
Enabling Constraints
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that pairs two opposing words. There is one I include in my software-engineering repertoire: enabling constraint. We can enable our goals by constraining ourselves. Let's consider this paradoxical effect. Apple Steve...
Apr 23, 20234 min read
The Stable Dependencies Principle
How stability can reduce the cost of change
Mar 30, 20233 min read