Raniz18h ago

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

We've known this since Fred Brooks wrote it in 1975—the opening sentence is a direct quote. Yet many projects still try to add people to meet deadlines, and it fails.

Even skilled developers need ramp-up time, during which they reduce the team's productivity.

I wrote about why this happens and what actually works: https://factor10.com/news/why-is-it-so-hard-to-optimise-software-delivery-under-stress/

#Development #SoftwareDevelopment #Productivity #Automation #TeamTopologies #DevOps #CI

A to Z of Software Engineering1d ago

Your Org Is Your Architecture #EngineeringLeadership #TechLeadership #SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #DevOps

Most engineering teams don’t fail because of bad code—they fail because of bad structure. If your teams are slow, your architecture is slow. If your ownership is unclear, your systems will break. This is the playbook for building engineering organizations that scale without chaos, burnout, or bottlenecks. Learn how to design teams, ownership, execution, and platforms like top-tier engineering leaders. #Leadership #EngineeringManagement #ScalableSystems #TechStrategy #PlatformEngineering #SRE #Microservices #DeveloperProductivity #Agile #DigitalTransformation

https://atozofsoftwareengineering.blog/2026/04/13/your-org-is-your-architecture-engineeringleadership-techleadership-softwareengineering-systemdesign-devops/

DevOpsDays Zurich5d ago

Operations is not a project. Security is not a project. Reliability does not have an end date.

Timo Böhm's Ignite at DevOpsDays Zürich 2026: kill the project, build a team.

Stop squeezing capabilities into Gantt charts with budget caps and end dates. Start building long-lived, capable teams instead.

https://www.devopsdays.ch/event/program/ignites/timo-bohm/

#DevOpsDays #DevOps #TeamTopologies #Engineering #Zurich

Eberhard WolffMar 27

Independent-Service-Heuristics-Wie-unabhaengig-ist-dein-Service-wirklich

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/6qqDn3f4dQUqNUSgVSKjmR

Independent-Service-Heuristics-Wie-unabhaengig-ist-dein-Service-wirklich

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Show threadKenny (Baas) SchweglerMar 23

The advice process doesn't give you worse decisions. It shows you the conversations you were never having.

#SoftwareArchitecture #DomainDrivenDesign #ArchitectureDecisionRecords #CollaborativeModelling #TeamTopologies

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Show threadKenny (Baas) SchweglerMar 19

Which is ultimately the deeper question: how do we change the conditions, not just the practices?

#SoftwareArchitecture #CollaborativeModelling #DomainDrivenDesign #TeamTopologies #FacilitatingArchitecture

Eberhard WolffMar 18

CircleK eMobility Journey Towards Effective Cross-functional Value Streams (Eduardo da Silva, Guro Fladvad Størdal)

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/pu2dT7B3v9aH8A8hPey4VS

CircleK eMobility Journey Towards Effective Cross-functional Value Streams (Eduardo da Silva, Guro Fladvad Størdal)

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Show threadKenny (Baas) SchweglerMar 6

Some of those stickies at the bottom of the board are still open questions. Good. Better to ask them here than have someone answer them quietly in a pull request.
Architecture is already happening across the whole room. The question is whether we make it visible.

This is part of day two of my DDD foundation workshop, and honestly one of my favourite conversations to facilitate.

#DomainDrivenDesign #CollaborativeModelling #EventStorming #SoftwareArchitecture #TeamTopologies

Kenny (Baas) SchweglerMar 2

After 2 years consulting DHL eCommerce BeNeLux, I've decided to join them as software architecture enabler.

The reason? I'm simply not done yet. And I wonder if I ever will be.

#DomainDrivenDesign #TeamTopologies #SoftwareArchitecture #CollaborativeModelling #EventDrivenArchitecture
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