Barry Boehm was a visionary and his research and conclusions laid the foundation of methods (for eg. XP) to build software efficiently. One of his many seminal works is the law that he proved (with data) - The cost of finding and fixing a defect grows exponentially with time Some of the many practices that engineers follow today address the effects of the law - Pair programming Continous integration and continuous delivery Automated functional tests| 🏡
Oft noted tenet in the world of programming, this principal is the basis of continuous integration and many more things (I tried to dig a bit into the origins, but didn’t find much success). Remember, “often” is used here as a relative measure of time, and could be replaced by a unit which makes sense - test integrations on every change (Integrations are hard) standup for 10 minutes everyday instead of an hour at the end of week (Alignments are hard) run performance reviews monthly (Per...| 🏡
Iterative improvement is the basis of most modern project management principles (agile/xp/scrum..). It follows the Scientific Method. The steps are simple and intuitive, indeed they follow how we learn most things - by trying and failing and trying again. So in case you have a system that you want to improve - Experiment - formalise and execute the change you expect to make in the system Observe - Observe the effect(s) of said change Course Correct - From these observations, find out if chang...| 🏡
Hullo there! My name is Ranjan, you may find my work bio here. I am currently on a break from active employment and spending time with kids, reading, roaming around and generally not doing much of anything. During this break, I am helping and coaching some founders and engineering leaders who have found pmf and are aspiring to scale their engineering teams. More about me Till recently, I managed engineering for an Indian edTech company called Vedantu. Before that, I worked at an Indonesian co...| 🏡
June 2019 At an event organised by ThoughtWorks I presented on scaling - tech, teams and processes. The slides by themselves may not paint a complete picture, if you have any questions, do drop me an email, and I will try to get back to you.| 🏡
Postel’s law ~19811,| 🏡
Sep 23th, 2022| 🏡