Optimising for trust

TDD, BDD, DDD, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP… there’s a lot of ways to skin a cat write code in a professional environment.

I take pride in being a person who is a non-ideologue when it comes to my code. There are many good ways of working, and they are all context-dependent.

You can’t apply the same things that worked when you were a two-person startup operating out of the proverbial garage and expect them to work once your hypothetical unicorn has reached a thousand-plus developers. Even within the same organisation, processes that work for one team can be catastrophic when applied to their neighbouring team.