Submissions by KentBeck

Beyond Extreme Programming: Scaling to 1000s by reducing team dependencies

Boss' Dilemma: Taking Responsibility Signals Cooperation

Responsibility: Consequences Flow Towards Power

The Pie Problem: A performance assessment parable

Programmers Underpaid? Labor vs. Capital

Cloud development environments tame complexity by reducing state

Software design decisions are (mostly) reversible

Tune Software Development for Rate of Change, Not Rate of Progress

Work/life balance should be difficult

Fixed equity grants become toxic to hard work in later growth

Background Work: Establishing credibility by indulging engineering curiosity

A Death-Aware Career Plan

How Meditation Works for Me

Meta-meta-cognition: reflecting on mind-mapping my thinking habits

Meta-meta-cognition: reflecting on mind-mapping my thinking habits

Does Pay-for-Performance Perform?

Tech compensation is biased toward the long-term. Fine if you have a long term

We aren’t owed an audience for our “feedback”

Monolith -> Services: A Sketchy Approach

If you do what you're told, you're paid too much

Career planning: recommendation letter from 2023

My experiment with clear and direct communication