What we say versus what we do
I’ve been hunting design heuristics for a couple of years. I’ve had conversations with designers in order to draw out their “go to” heuristics. I’ve joined design and programming sessions with...
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Reconciling New Design Approaches with What You Already Know
Last week at the deliver:Agile conference in Nashville I attended a talk by Autumn Crossman explaining the benefits of functional programming to us old timey object-oriented designers. I also attended...
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Design (Un)Certainty and Decision Trees
Billy Vaughn Koen, in The Discussion of The Method: Conducting the Engineer’s Approach to Problem Solving, says, “the absolute value of a heuristic is not established by conflict, but depends upon its...
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Noisy Decisions
“The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.”–Daphne Koller I have tinnitus. When there isn’t much sound in my environment, for me it still isn’t quiet. I hear a...
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Is it Noise or Euphony?
The book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein has me thinking deeply about noisy decisions. In this context, noise is defined as undesirable...
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Too Much Salt?
Practiced speakers and writers know that good examples rarely tell the whole story. Instead they shape their narratives to make the big ideas stand out. Stories are bent ever so slightly, plot details...
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2021 Year End Review
Kapa’a, Hawaii photo by Rebecca Here’s a quick recap of blog posts I wrote in 2021. Agile Experience Reports Juggling Multiple Scrum Teams I introduce Iuri Ilatanski’s experience report about life as...
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Testing, Testing…our Heuristics
We gather heuristics through storytelling and conversations Recently Chelsea Troy and I chatted over Zoom about software testing heuristics. I met Chelsea last year at DDD Europe. In this and a couple...
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Our Heuristics are Shaped Through Experience
This post is part two of some reflections on a conversation I had with Chelsea Troy about our testing heuristics. You may also want to read part one and Chelsea’s writeup. I shared with Chelsea how my...
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Getting out of your ruts
This post is part three (and the last) of reflections on a conversation I had with Chelsea Troy about our testing and development heuristics. I asked Chelsea, how do you get people to be less clingy...
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