principles

SQLite, Hidden Fields, and Stubbornness

Adding Manpower to a Late Software Project Makes It Later

Any Organization That Designs a System Will Produce a Design Whose Structure Is a Copy of the Organization's Communication Structure

The Less You Know, the More You Think You Know

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

When a Measure Becomes a Target, It Ceases to Be a Good Measure

The Philosophy That Worked Until It Became a Brand

Code That Works, Written by Someone Who Left, in a Style That Is No Longer Fashionable

The BBQ Principle That Is Also a Software Architecture, or Vice Versa

Minimum Viable Product, Maximum Viable Excuse

Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong

The Holy Trinity of Seasoning, or Why Three Is Enough

The Framework Extracted from Zero Working Tools

The Book That Was Agile Before Agile Had a Name, a Manifesto, or a Certification Industry

Changing the Structure Without Changing the Behaviour, and Other Acts of Quiet Heroism

The Decisions You Can't Undo, Made by People Who Won't Be Here

The Art of Seeing the Whole, Practised by Almost Nobody

Code Written by Someone Who Left

A Novel About Throughput That Became the Throughput of Novels

Build-Measure-Learn (Emphasis on Build, Skip Measure, Forget Learn)

Essays on Software Engineering, and the Fifty Years Nobody Listened

s/factory/IT department/g

s/Brent/developer experience/g

The Rule Everyone Sets and Nobody Follows

You Aren't Gonna Need It

Every Program Attempts to Expand Until It Can Read Mail