Agile Book Club interview on Refactoring
James Shore’s Art of Agile Development is my favorite single-volume book on agile software development. A reason for that is its serious emphasis on the technical practices that are essential…
How I use Twitter
A couple of recent conversations about Twitter were nudging me into writing about how I use Twitter even before The Muskover developed. Twitter has become an important part of my…
Transitional Architecture
The core to a successful legacy displacement is the gradual replacement of legacy with new software, as this allows benefits to delivered early and circumvents the risks of a Big…
Investing in the hiring process
Tim Cochran and Roni Smith complete their article by looking at how scaleups need to invest in the hiring process to overcome the talent bottleneck. They add a case study…
How to get out of the talent bottleneck
Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explore how scaleups can get out of the hiring bottleneck by using technology and innovation as a hiring differentiator, hiring T-shaped and non-senior developers, and…
How scaleups get constrained by talent
The second bottleneck in the series looks at talent, and how scaleups struggle to hire enough good people. Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explain how the small network and informal…
How to get out of the tech debt bottleneck
Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard finish their examination of the tech debt bottleneck by looking at how to get out of it. This includes close collaboration betwen product and engineering,…
Bottlenecks of Scaleups: How did you get tech debt?
In its early days, a startup searches for a good product-market fit. When it finds one it looks to grow rapidly, a phase known as a scaleup. At this time…