Every project has two phases. The first one is governed by passion, and it starts when an idea comes to your mind and you start drafting, planning, playing around with sketches or chords or diagrams, and you simply can’t avoid being dragged forward by the rush of excitement. …

Magic things happen when one articulates thoughts, builds them into ideas, and share those ideas with someone else. Thinking out loud is far better than thinking, and thinking out loud along with someone whose focus is to understand you, to navigate with you through your thoughts, that is even better. …

An idea that has been exposed to being argued against, contradicted, or polemicized for a long period of time is likely worth studying, yet more often than not the new, trendy ideas are the ones that get most of our attention. The concept of using the passage of time as…

Procrastination. The action of voluntarily delaying something despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so. …

One of the first rules that one learns as a software developer is that everything takes three times longer than you know it should. This may seem an overstatement, but there are reasons behind this claim. I have tried to analyze them in the articles Estimating through randomness and Estimating…

One of the main reasons behind inaccurate estimates is the influence of cognitive biases. The good thing about this is that biases may be a topic that is not largely discussed in the software industry, but we can apply to software development processes many lessons learned across other industries. This…

Estimating is one of the easiest parts of software development, said no one, ever. Hard as it is, it is just as important, and being able to deliver projects as planned makes teams, projects, and ultimately companies reliable. As with everything else, an important step towards getting better at estimating…

A while ago -it may have been 2 months or 2 years, COVID has disrupted my perception of time- I read an article by Dave Girouard called Speed as a Habit. The beginning of the article reads “I’ve long believed that speed is the ultimate weapon in business. …