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.

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

Enabling Constraints

Apr 24, 20235 min read

For a tech team to be enabled they must be constrained. Steve Jobs said, ‘Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do’. When he...

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 butterfly effect, it can cause your code to break...

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

Knowledge and Responsibility

Feb 6, 20232 min read

A mantra for software design · A mantra is a memorable phrase you repeat to yourself for guidance. 'Focus and simplicity' was one of Steve Jobs's. I love...

Knowledge and Responsibility