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How to handle complexity

How to handle complexity

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Let’s start with a confession. I didn’t love the way this post turned out:

How to understand deadlines (as a developer)

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How to understand deadlines (as a developer)

You have been tasked with shipping something important, which you originally built as a prototype after developing the idea yourself. It is now due in four weeks, when the company will announce it at…

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All my posts are full of hand-waving and attempts at focusing on one thing without going down too many it-depends side street…

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