Escaping the Time Trap: Why Estimating Effort, Not Time, Leads to Greater Success

Many organisations - while branding themselves as “Agile” - continue to make the mistake of estimating project velocity based on time than effort. ...

April 28, 2023 · 8 min · 1681 words · Sam McLeod

Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency

Deployment / Delivery Frequency I often end up needing to advocate for more frequent delivery/deployments with clients. There’s the usual benefits commonly discussed such as improved feedback, reduced risk, well understood processes, maintainable dependencies etc… however what’s often missed entirely is how it relates to the health and sustainability of the team. ...

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · 373 words · Sam McLeod

Encourage Your Peers To Contribute To Open Source

Contributing to Open Source is important to the quality and maintainability of the software and engineering communities we rely on every day - so why is it that so many developers/engineers never participate? ...

October 30, 2022 · 3 min · 535 words · Sam McLeod

Making Work Visible - Avoid DMs

We create more value by having conversations in public instead of behind closed doors. ...

October 20, 2022 · 6 min · 1071 words · Sam McLeod