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2023
2022
- Nov 29: Branching and Integration Time
- Nov 20: Perceived Safety and Branches
- Nov 10: Workspaces and Delays
- Nov 7: The Trouble with Branching
- Nov 2: Why Code Lines Matter
- Oct 31: Code Lines
- Oct 29: It's About Time: Branching and Integration
2020
- Nov 12: Review: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
- Oct 21: Review: You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake: How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them
- Oct 11: Review: The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
- Oct 5: Review: Humankind: A Hopeful History
- Jul 24: Review: Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
- Jul 24: Review: Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis
- Jul 5: Review: Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean & Agile Business Growth
- Jun 25: Review: Together The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
- Apr 27: Review: You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
- Apr 20: Review: What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
- Apr 15: Review: Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- Apr 13: Review: Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
- Apr 13: Review: Kill Reply All: A Modern Guide to Online Etiquette, from Social Media to Work to Love
- Jan 7: Review: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
- Jan 3: Review: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation
2019
- Dec 31: Review: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- Dec 27: Review: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
- Oct 24: Review: Do Disrupt: Change the status quo. Or become it.
- Oct 21: Review: Indistractable
- Oct 18: Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Aug 17: Book Review: 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change
- Aug 13: Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Aug 13: Review: Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
- Mar 31: Review: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Feb 10: Transferring Minecraft Worlds using Files between iOS Devices
2018
2017
- May 18: Site Reliability Engineering; The Book and The Practices
- May 5: Designing your life: Design and Agile Tools Applied to Life.
- Jan 29: Excitingly Well Run Meetings
- Jan 9: Books to Make Discussion Easier
2016
- Nov 14: Review: Grit for Kids: 16 top steps for developing Grit, Passion, Willpower, and Perseverance in kids for self-confidence and a successful life
- Oct 25: Review: 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying
- Oct 8: Mindfulness, Resilience and Positive Intelligence (Book Review)
- Sep 17: Tribe: A Multi Level Discussion of Community
- Aug 29: Ted Talks (Book Review)
- Jul 10: Starting and Closing Agile Retrospectives with People in Mind
- Jun 20: Grit with the Nuances (Book Review)
- May 24: Recent Reads: Leadership, Use Cases
- Mar 27: Giving, Taking, and Being Successful
- Feb 7: How Mindsets can Help or Hinder Learning (Book Review)
- Feb 1: Team of Teams: An Unexpected Source of Agile Inspiration
- Jan 23: How Children Succeed: Rethinking What's Important (Book Review)
- Jan 10: Turn the Ship Around: Agile Lessons from a Submarine Captain
2015
- Feb 15: Brick By Brick: Lessons from Lego (Book Review)
- Jan 23: Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Book Review)
- Jan 10: Essential Scrum and Other Books to Help You be Agile
2014
- Oct 5: The Importance of the Invisibles (Book Review)
- Sep 7: Gulp! (Book Review)
- Jul 16: Book Review of Java Performance: The Definitive Guide
- Mar 22: Estimation as a requirements Exercise
- Feb 17: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture For Dummies (Book Review)
2013
- Sep 7: Zen of Listening (Book Review)
- Aug 25: Lean UX for Startups (Book Review)
- May 25: Lean User Experience: Using UX on an Agile Project
- Mar 31: The Human Side of (Agile) Software Development
- Jan 20: Usable Usability Across Virtual and Physical Spaces
- Jan 12: The Pumpkin Plan
2012
- Dec 22: Slicing Pie (Review)
- Sep 21: Groovy Dependencies, Grape, and Firewalls
- Sep 8: Automation
- Jul 28: Problem Solving: Deadlines and Context
- Mar 18: Patterns and The Storytelling Animal
- Mar 10: Have the Orders Changed?
- Mar 4: Paper v Electronic Dashboards: Goals and Values
- Feb 26: Kanban
- Jan 23: Do we care whether it's Software Engineering or Craft?
- Jan 14: Agility (and Learning Opportunities) Everywhere
2011
- Dec 8: Questioning before Answering
- Dec 5: SCM Tool as Collaboration Tool
- Nov 22: Definitions
- Nov 20: Refactoring
- Oct 19: Agile or Not: How to Get Things Done
- Oct 16: More on Being Done
- Oct 12: Being Done
- Oct 10: Continuous Learning, Coaching, and Learning from Others
- Oct 9: SSQ Article on SCM and Tools
- Sep 18: Thoughts on The Lean Startup
- Sep 5: Why SCM Patterns is in Patterns Format
- Jul 11: Experience and Learning
- Jul 7: Happiness and Agility
- Jul 4: Specialization, Generalization, and Effectiveness in Software Teams: Clinical Metaphors
- Jun 28: Tips, Habits, Customs and Agility
- May 30: Better: More Parallels between Medicine and Agile Software
- May 11: Displaying Build Numbers in Grails Apps
- Mar 14: Using Issue Tracking Systems Well
- Feb 28: Recent Writings (Dev Ops and Testing)
2010
- Dec 23: Continuous Delivery
- Nov 28: What Agile QA Really Does: Testing Requirements
- Nov 22: Risks of Manual Integration Testing in the Context Rapid Change
- Nov 14: To Scrum, Prepare
- Oct 10: The Checklist as Empowerment tool
- Sep 6: Lean Architecture
- Aug 3: Are You Done Yet?
- Jun 21: A Review of Drive by Dan Pink
- May 19: Motivation Visibility, and Unit Testing
- Apr 28: Measuring Performance for Teams
- Apr 11: Things about Release Management Every Programmer Should Know
- Apr 5: Planning is a Gerund
- Apr 3: Book Review: Modular Java
- Mar 25: Are You Agile Enough?
- Mar 14: The Checklist Manifesto as Agile Primer
- Mar 7: Agile Portfolio Management
- Feb 28: Estimation Poker
- Feb 20: The Indivisible Task
- Feb 16: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is Done
- Feb 7: Tracking what Matters
- Jan 18: Banishing Blame with Agile Values
- Jan 11: Estimates and Priorities: Which Comes First
- Jan 7: Review of Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams: Balancing Sustainability and Speed
- Jan 4: Sprint Boundaries and Working Weekends
- Jan 2: Estimation: Precision and Accuracy (and Economics)
2009
- Dec 31: Continuous Integration of Python Code with Unit Tests and Maven
- Dec 17: Versions in Maven and Source
- Dec 13: Uncertainty and Agile Requirements
- Nov 28: Silver Bullets and Simple Solutions
- Nov 22: Planning Time and Sprint Duration
- Nov 10: Doing Less to Get Things Done
- Nov 8: Fail, To Succeed
- Oct 25: The 2009 Software Test and Performance Conference
- Oct 24: Information, Interaction, and Scrum
- Oct 19: Continuous Integration as Metaphor for Agile Methods
- Oct 1: Enabling Change
- Sep 26: IDEs and Builds Scripts (September Better Software)
- Sep 5: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
- Aug 16: Streamed Lines at 11
- Aug 9: Sprint Review as Agile Enabler
- Aug 2: Releasing, Branches, and Agile Teams
- Jul 27: Yours, Mine, and Ours- Ownership on Agile Teams
- Jul 20: Finding and Evaluating Options
- Jul 14: July 23 Agile Bazaar: Agile Teamwork: The People Issues
- Jul 12: Begin with the End in Mind: Deploy Early
- Jul 10: STPCon 2009 in Boston
- Jul 5: Testing Cost Benefit Analysis
- Jun 28: Review of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
- Jun 20: 3 Books every engineer should read
- Jun 14: Feeback, Writers Workshop Style
- Jun 7: The Value of Agile Infrastructure
- Jun 2: Pitching Agile and the Elevator Test
- May 29: Really Dumb Tests
- May 26: SCM as a Change Enabler for Agile Teams
- May 25: IDEs in March
- May 18: Accidental Simplicity
2006