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Finding the Art
Software Engineer at heart. Tech Lead by craft. With 16+ years in software engineering, I solve complex problems and enable the delivery of a continuous and efficient flow of value.
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Clean Architecture
Architecture is the art of drawing lines. A cheeky definition. I think of architecture as how concerns are separated and the rules that govern them. The lines we draw tend to depict this perspective. Clean Architecture is my go-to for source code. He...
Tech Lead to Thought Lead?
A reflection on my leadership journey
MonoLISA
The art of crafting clean repositories
Waterfall in sprints isn't Agile
I've worked in unstructured, Waterfall, and Agile software processes since 2009. One I found ineffective is 'Waterfall in sprints', confused as Agile. When I saw a meme about it, I realised it's a common Agile anti-pattern. Here, I'll unpack what I m...
You Aren't Gonna Need It
The art of minimising overproduction
Why I use the old school definition of story points
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 what they are, however, you’ll likely get different answers. Some say it represents complexity or ef...
Enabling Constraints
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 can enable our goals by constraining ourselves. Let's consider this paradoxical effect. Apple Steve...
The Stable Dependencies Principle
How stability can reduce the cost of change