Most delivery slowdowns start with a simple, well-intended mistake: we break a user story into “coding” and a separate “unit-test” card so we can estimate them individually. On paper, the board looks tidy; in reality, we’ve planted a fault line between behaviour and validation. The “real” work gets finished first, tests slip to the end […]
Delivery slowdowns rarely start with harmful code; they begin with late feedback. When hours (or days) pass between a commit and its validation, defects hide, merge conflicts grow, and confidence plummets. Robert C. Martin’s reminder in Clean Agile pinpoints the root cause: Continuous Integration (CI) exists to tighten the feedback loop so the team always […]
The problem we must solveAsk any engineering team why delivery slows down and you’ll hear about “mysterious bugs”, “legacy modules no one touches” and sprint goals devoured by rework. Adam Tornhill pinpoints the invisible culprit in Your Code as a Crime Scene: accidental complexity, code that’s harder than the problem demands. Left unchecked, it metastasizes […]