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On 18 November 2025, GitHub had an hour-long outage that affected the heart of their product: Git operations.

I’ve worked in teams at both ends of the spectrum — teams that follow no governance at all, and teams slowed down by excessive processes.

Riya’s startup had grown faster than she expected.

Incidents are inevitable.

Last month, I watched a senior engineer spend three hours debugging what should have been a fifteen-minute problem.

the·a·tre (also the·a·ter) /ˈθiːətər/ noun : the performance of actions or behaviors for appearance rather than substance; an elaborate pretense that simulates real activity while lacking its essential purpose or outcomes Example: “The company’s security…

A PoD structure enables cross functional teams, that is, teams that comprise of different specialisations like engineer, product manager, data scientist etc to work independently and execute on a business goal without dependencies on other teams.

Staffing is relative to expectations.

Oct 7th, 2022 Series A funds are generally used to grow business, often to scale as a startup finds a product market fit (PMF).

Sep 23th, 2022 Lately I have been reading a bit about group dynamics, and I came across something very obvious yet not talked about in simple terms - the effect of group size on individual productivity.

OKRs are theoretically quite good for planning and communicating organisational goals and checking progress.

Jul 6th, 2020 A good friend became a father recently, and wanted to get some free advice about what to expect when he got back to work.

Barry Boehm was a visionary and his research and conclusions laid the foundation of methods (for eg.

Oft noted tenet in the world of programming, this principal is the basis of continuous integration and many more things (I tried to dig a bit into the origins, but didn’t find much success).

Iterative improvement is the basis of most modern project management principles (agile/xp/scrum..).

Jul 5th, 2020 In general, employee performance cycles are considered a painful experience for most participants.

Hullo there!

Apr 27th, 2020 A very dear friend asked me the other day - what is the best book you’ve read about building teams?

June 2019 At an event organised by ThoughtWorks I presented on scaling - tech, teams and processes.

Postel’s law ~19811, “Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”

Postel’s law ~19811, “Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”

May 12th, 2014 Python list comprehensions are by far the simplest and most readable loop expressions that I have worked with.

Oct 24th, 2011 A reader on my article at infoq asked an interesting question - introducing automation to a big project which has been worked on for some time.

Aug 25th, 2011 Software testing and verification needs a careful and diligent process of impersonating an end user, trying various usages and input scenarios, comparing and asserting expected behaviours.

Jan 3rd, 2011 Functional testing code is more often than not treated as a second class citizen.

DEC 6th, 2010 In my opinion, there are three main reasons why a functional automation suite loses its value (or the respect that a delivery team should pay it).

Feb 10th, 2009 On the last two projects that I have worked on, both being fairly sized in terms of people (40+), I have seen enormous effort being spent on functional testing.