Category: podcast

Project failures are an inevitable part of a software developer's life. While failures are inevitable, learning and recovering value from the wreckage is entirely optional. In this episode Isaac and discuss ways to learn more, reuse more, and minimize the scope of project failures.

If you've ever had a project fail and wondered "now what?", this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Ever struggled to get people to notice incremental changes? Small and gradual is great for increasing velocity and reducing risk, but they risk getting lost in the noise. In this epsidoe we discuss how gathering metrics results in better outcomes and team visability.

If you've ever wondered how to show steady improvement over time, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Does AI invert the Testing Pyramid? Does it still make sense to have lots of unit tests, fewer integration tests, and very few end-to-end tests? As AI makes it easy to write end-to-end tests do the old rules still make sense?

If you are wondering how AI impacts writing and running tests, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Spriha Tucker, Field CTO at BuildKite joins us to talk about feedback loops in iterative development. Spriha explains how CI/CD is all about feedback loops and de-risking the development process.

If you've ever wondered how you can have CI/CD and still have massive projects fail, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Why do abandoned projects and failed rewrites have code that lingers on forever?

If you've ever wondered why it is so hard to shut down old systems, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Sure, the software part of the software rewrite is going to fail, but that's just the beginning. In this epsiode of Never Rewrite, Isaac and I work through the social and emotional ramifications of failed rewrites.

If you've wondered about the pressures that rip teams apart, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

You don't have to chose between a Rewrite and Iterative Improvement. You can also ask, "Do I even want a better version of what I have?" Maybe neither choice is right for you, and you need a pivot.

If you've ever looked at some code and said "Not only is this a mess, but it doesn't do what I want", this is a great episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Code can you tell you how something works, but it can't tell you how it is supposed to work. How can growing businesses keep track of how features are supposed to work? Especially over, growth, time and people when the way it should work keeps changing.

If you've ever looked at code and said "I see what it says, but I have no clue what it means", this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Getting MVPs to actually be Minimum, Viable, and Products is surprisingly complex. In this epsiode, Isaac, Dustin, and I dive into the tradeoffs between simplicity and scalability, the Goldilocks Problem, and overly long development cycles.

If you've ever worked on an MVP that became a full product before it launched, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Does Conway's Law apply to software quality? In this episode, Isaac, Dustin, and I explore how company culture and structure shape software.

If you've ever wondered about the forces that shape your code base, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!