Blog - How we use the hill chart to conquer deadlines

If the green circle is a critical piece of work, and your hill chart looks like this, you’ve got a problem. Issues like this become visible thanks to the hill chart.

In the “eliminating unknowns” sub-phase we do things like spiking unfamiliar third-party APIs.

If we can get all scope to the top by week five, shipping on time is virtually guaranteed.

Blog - Dispelling myths about Basecamp's Shape Up

It’s more interesting to discuss “the why” (my version of it, at least), and to examine common criticisms directed at Basecamp’s Shape Up. That’s more useful to you if you’re considering Shape Up.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Making progress on page 1.

When incremental development is done incorrectly, one missing element causes the whole thing to be unusable.

Blog - Is Shape Up just a nice theory?

This plain-looking list of epics was how the app’s home page looked for most of the life of the project. We were happy to leave styling to the end because we knew that we’d be able to quickly knock out a half decent UI.

Blog - Deploying a Django app to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Blog - Incompatibility breeds complexity

Requirement: if date or time is invalid, reject.

One timestamp field in the backend, but two UI fields in the frontend.

Blog - How creativity can make you a better engineer

Image by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash.

Blog - You Should Know About Goodhart's Law

An oft-quoted example of Goodhart’s Law took place in Britain, where the government wanted its hospitals to reduce emergency wait times to within 4 hours. The hospitals were able to meet the target but resorted to gaming the statistics.

Blog - Shape Up Board for Jira gives software agencies a competitive advantage

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.