Push your own flywheel

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Today marks my 20 years working in the software industry. I was going to write a post about what I've done over that time and my takeaways from all the weird and beautiful things I've done. I might still do, but below is something that's taken me nearly 20 years to realise.
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision by Cristi Ursea on Unsplash

The courage to supercharge your testability

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Testability is all about building quality-in. It's about identifying known issues before they become a problem while coding. Pairing testers into this process can supercharge the testability feedback loop. It can allow you to pick up known and unknown issues. But pairing devs and testers together needs courage.
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Three things of 2021

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Every week I spend some time reflecting on what I learned or found interesting and this is a summary of my year. After doing this for nearly 3 years one of the biggest ways it's helped me with is seeing the thread through my work which reminds…
Island Adventures by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash

Speed Vs Quality: Can you have both?

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5 minutes reading time I was recently part of a panel discussion around the topic “What is quality?” and an interesting question came up. Is it always a choice between speed of delivery and the quality of that delivery? The thinking…
Why Don't Teams Go For Incremental Improvements by @JitGo

Incremental improvements: Why don’t teams do it more?

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(Reading time: 10 minutes) I’ve been working with a lot of different engineering teams over the years and there has been a strong tendency for them to avoid incremental improvements and instead go for bigger changes. There are many reasons…