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Process June 12, 2015
Stress-Driven Development: Your Cortisol Is a Feature Flag
Panic-Driven Development ships when adrenaline peaks. Stress-Driven Development ships when cortisol reaches a sustained, clinical baseline. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
8 min
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Process May 22, 2015
Gambling-Driven Development: Let the House Decide What Ships
Prioritization frameworks are just structured opinions. A deck of cards is an unstructured opinion. Both are equally valid. One is more fun.
8 min
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Process April 10, 2015
Walkie-Talkie Pair Programming: Distributed Pairing for the Paranoid
Slack is compromised. Zoom is surveillance. The only secure development channel is a pair of Motorola T800s from Amazon.
8 min
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Process March 18, 2015
Whiteboard Buddy-Cop Pair Programming
One engineer writes code. The other stands at a whiteboard and narrates what's happening like a detective in a procedural drama. Productivity is up 15%.
9 min
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Process February 20, 2015
Chess Clock Pair Programming: Accountability in 10-Minute Increments
Regular pair programming has no time pressure. That's the problem.
7 min
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Process February 2, 2015
Panic-Driven Development: Ship It When the Dread Is High Enough
Why use a sprint cadence when the human adrenal system provides a perfectly good scheduler?
6 min
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Process January 28, 2015
Insult-Driven Development: Code Review as Performance Art
Shame-Driven Development was too subtle. We've removed the subtext.
8 min
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Process January 15, 2015
Violence-Driven Development: A Theoretical Framework
We are not advocating for this. This is a thought experiment. (The productivity numbers are compelling.)
5 min
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