THE TEXTS
Your backlog is a graveyard. Time to bury it.
847 tickets. The oldest are four years old. Nobody is ever going to do them, and everyone knows it. They still get groomed, moved and re-prioritized, quarter after quarter. The backlog is organized self-deception, archiving sets you free, and one rule keeps the graveyard empty.
JULNº 01COMING TUE 15/12
Boring technology as a competitive advantage
New and exciting, or stable and proven? The fault line turns up in every team, and it is rarely about the technology. A defense of the boring choice, the innovation budget that leaves both camps satisfied, and why ‘boring’ is a compliment.
JULNº 02COMING THU 17/12
We deleted half our documentation. Productivity went up.
It sounds like vandalism. It was maintenance. 214 pages disappeared, and the delete button turned out to be the most important tool in documentation work. A team’s trust in documentation is binary: either they trust all of it, or they read none of it.
JULNº 03COMING TUE 22/12