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

It's 2022 and we're (still) not deploying enough

We’re (still) not deploying enough It’s 2022 and not deploying frequently enough is still one of the most common causes of software failure. ...

August 23, 2022 · 6 min · 1155 words · Sam McLeod