Estimates Are Wrong
Estimates are at best educated guesses, and the further out in the future they are, the less likely they are to reflect reality. Ignore this fact at your peril.
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Estimates Are Non-Transferable
Estimates are made by individuals, with individual assumptions. As such, they don't transfer well between individuals, even within the same role or skillset.
Estimates Are Waste
Estimates are waste, in that time spent estimating is often time that could have been spent producing something with business value. The first of the 5 laws of software estimates, this one is easy to demonstrate in the …
Postel's Law - The Robustness Principle
Postel's Law, also known as the Robustness Principle, states that TCP implementations should be conservative in what they do (send), but liberal in what they accept from others. It's credited with helping the early …
Conway's Law, DDD, and Microservices
Conway's Law states that any organization that designs a system
Invest in Good User Stories
User stories are a useful tool for describing requirements of
Data Access Principles
Software design principles to consider when evaluating data access
Design a No Duplicates Rule in your Domain Model?
Eleven ways to design a no duplicates names rule in a domain model following domain-driven design (DDD).
Immediate Domain Event Salvation with MediatR
How to wire up immediate pre persistence domain events in ASP.NET Core with MediatR.
How to Easily Format Tables in Markdown
Markdown is a great tool/language for writing documentation and