Finding the Art

Christiaan Fouché

Christiaan Fouché

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I’m passionate about enabling teams to produce a continuous flow of features. My repertoire includes Clean Code, Clean Architecture, Agile, DevOps, and technical leadership.

Waterfall in sprints isn't Agile

Feb 1, 20245 min read

I've worked in unstructured, Waterfall, and Agile software processes since 2009. One I found ineffective is 'Waterfall in sprints', confused as Agile....

Waterfall in sprints isn't Agile

You Aren't Gonna Need It

Nov 8, 20233 min read

The art of minimising overproduction · YAGNI! You Aren't Gonna Need It. It's a phrase I've been broadcasting a lot lately. It sparked lively debates...

You Aren't Gonna Need It

Why I use the old school definition of story points

Aug 2, 20236 min read

This is a republish of this article I wrote for OfferZen's blog. Story points are ubiquitous in the Agile world. If you ask two different Agile teams...

Why I use the old school definition of story points

Enabling Constraints

Apr 23, 20235 min read

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that pairs two opposing words. There is one I include in my software-engineering repertoire: enabling constraint. We...

Enabling Constraints

The Stable Dependencies Principle

Mar 30, 20233 min read

How stability can reduce the cost of change · What if I told you change is coming? Lots of it. Like the domino effect, a simple code change could trigger...

The Stable Dependencies Principle

Parents, teenagers, and unit tests

Mar 4, 20232 min read

A perspective of unit tests · There’s a theory of stability. It applies to entities. We can observe its effect on human behaviour. It explains why...

Parents, teenagers, and unit tests