2020

This month I want to highlight a blog post, The programmer as decision maker, by Mark Seemann. This post reminds developers that you are hired to be the technical experts, and with expertise comes autonomy and decision-making authority. Use high judgment to make local decisions, and you will not be disappointed with the results. For broader…

This month I want to highlight a blog post, Quality and effort, by Seth Godin. This short post describes a case study of how work is error-prone, regardless of our best efforts, and how mechanisms solve this problem. As Jeff Bezos famously said: good intentions don’t work, mechanisms do. Seth’s example brings a non-Amazon flavor to…