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Essays from October 2025
3 essays from October 2025
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The 10x Developer Myth Has Destroyed Our Ability to Learn in The Software Industry
When we think of software development as a single-person endeavor – the reason the 10x developer myth matters – we miss what actually matters: it’s a team sport, it’s about managing growing complexity, and it’s about communication, coordination, and planning. Research suggests the 10x myth might be just that – when you factor in code …
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Agile Project Management—The Delusional Role
Bare with me, I’m trying to make a point. Read through, leave the flame wars for other posts. An Agile Project Manager is an oxymoron, a contradiction. You can’t be “agile” and “project manager” at the same time. Here’s some examples: Why? You correctly ask: BECAUSE the theories of the world for Project Management and …
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How AI will clog our product development processes…
I recognize the temptation. “If I could only do this fastidious planning work a bit faster, I’d get home earlier…” Sure, it’s easy to see how AI would write User Stories faster… BUT: the real world is different: the whole point of product work is navigating uncertainty. We don’t know what’s valuable yet. That’s the …
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