
Samuel Taggart
The official "Architect of Adventure". I help teams create healthy, human-centered software development processes.




What does scalability actually mean?
So recently the question of scalability came up on an NI forum post. Stephen Loftus-Mercer (aka AristosQueue) made a very interesting point. He talked about how scaling can mean many different things to many different people. A solution that is scalable on one axis might not be scalable on another.






June 2020 Webinar
Technical Skills For Agile Development
June 24, 11:00am MT
Agile has a lot to say about how we manage the software development lifecycle, but it requires good technical skills to be successful.
Often we get caught up in the software development lifecycle side of agile software development. It is








The Value of Software Quality
So I stumbled upon a few things recently:
* a J.B. Rainsberger presentation about “The Economics of Software Development”
* a video by Andrea Goulet that touches on some similar issues (thanks Fab for recommending!).
* a video by Jessica Joy Kerr on “The Secret to Software Quality”
To me they are






QBQ
QBQ stands for the question behind the question. This little book is about the questions we ask ourselves in our head and about getting to the question behind the question and taking personal accountability. It’s about changing our inner dialog and asking questions that serve us instead of asking