Blog
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One Piece Flow in Software Delivery
The manufacturing principle everyone cites but few apply correctly. What one piece flow actually means for software teams - and why the unit of flow is a well-sized story, not a commit.
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The Slop Code Taxonomy
5 root causes, 9 failure categories, 100+ signals - a field guide to what goes wrong when AI writes your code and nobody reviews it properly.
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The State of the State of DevOps
Fourteen reports. Two research programs. A decade of data on what makes software teams perform. Here is what survived, what didn't, and the uncomfortable conclusion the research keeps circling but can't quite prove.
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DORA Metrics: What the Research Actually Says
DORA is the most cited framework in software delivery - but 2024 found AI adoption made pipelines worse while developers felt more productive. Here is what the research actually supports.
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The Iron Laws of Agentic Coding
Sixteen constraints for building with AI agents - the kind that make speed possible by making catastrophe unlikely.