Category: Process

Scalability Rule 39: Feature Flags

In the book Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Websites (Abbott & Fisher), Chapter 9 (Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure) includes rule 39, Ensure You Can Wire…

Greg Fennewald

July 26, 2022 · 4 min read

Technical Diligence Organization Process

Don't Rely on QA to Find Mistakes

A few years back, my husband and I moved from California to Florida to start new jobs. With our children in tow, we said goodbye to the mountains and dry heat to a life of flat…

Victoria Wisot

July 11, 2022 · 5 min read

Architecture Process

If It's Not Observable, It Can't be Released – Design To Be Monitored

Design To Be Monitored is one of those AKF architectural principles that resonates with many product engineering teams. After all, high availability, reliability, and visibility…

Dave Berardi

July 1, 2022 · 4 min read

Process

Postmortems: Box Checker or Value Creator

When we evaluate the operations processes of clients, one of the subordinate processes we look at are postmortems. Postmortems are an expected component of problem management for…

Greg Fennewald

June 27, 2022 · 3 min read

Architecture Process Security

Security Anti-Pattern: Firewall Frenzy (Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere!)

This article is one of a series of security anti-patterns commonly found in our experience and during technical due diligences for investors, and workshops with our clients. A…

Pete Ferguson

June 7, 2022 · 4 min read

Leadership Process

Crisis Response - Practice like its Game Time

There is a ubiquitous saying “never let a crisis go to waste” which has been applied across many fields and topics. While some may regard a crisis as an opportunity to advance…

Greg Fennewald

March 31, 2022 · 3 min read

Process Product

1-10-100 rule in quality software development

What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control? The 1-10-100 rule simply refers to the cost to fix defects (aka bugs) by phase/step in a software development…

Pete Ferguson

March 24, 2022 · 2 min read

Organization Process

Why story points and velocity really matter

Recently, we have come across many teams that are not using story points and team velocity to track progress through the sprint.When asked why, we hear things like: "It doesn't…

Curtis Nielsen

August 27, 2021 · 5 min read

Architecture Leadership Process

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

Do software initiatives such maintenance, upgrades and refactoring fall under the umbrella of Technical Debt? Perhaps a trick question, but when this body of work is planned proactively…

Heather Abbott

July 23, 2021 · 6 min read

Process

What is not tech debt

Recently we updated our definition of tech debt tech debt. As a follow on to that article, this post goes into areas that are not tech debt, but often confused or confounded with…

Heather Abbott

May 21, 2021 · 6 min read

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Category: Process

Scalability Rule 39: Feature Flags

Don't Rely on QA to Find Mistakes

If It's Not Observable, It Can't be Released – Design To Be Monitored

Postmortems: Box Checker or Value Creator

Security Anti-Pattern: Firewall Frenzy (Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere!)

Crisis Response - Practice like its Game Time

1-10-100 rule in quality software development

Why story points and velocity really matter

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

What is not tech debt

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