Archive - Wednesday Wisdom

The Continuous Production Readiness Review

It’s not a checklist, it’s a to-do list!

Apr 17 •

Don’t be a rockstar engineer!

Instead, be like a session musician…

Apr 10 •

Never approve design docs

And don’t treat them as launch checklist items

Apr 3 •

March 2024

Mar 28 •

Things you can learn from Microsoft

Stamina, developer outreach, and ruthless execution

Mar 20 •

How to beat the critical path

Step one: Know it exists!

Mar 13 •

How high performing teams are like great bread

Mar 7 •

February 2024

The need for beautiful code

(Like this article? Read more Wednesday Wisdom!) One of the problems with software engineering is that 99.9% of the time, and in the short term, bad…

Feb 28 •

The devil is old

Age and experience are the sources of wisdom

Feb 21 •

Working hard does not cause stress

But if it doesn’t, then what does?

Feb 14 •

Software engineers and the law

Never ask a lawyer a boolean question

Feb 7 •

January 2024

Of course, again

Why we keep launching on Friday and keeping making other mistakes

Jan 31 •

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