About Analog Moment
Hi, I'm James Cox-Morton, but I go by @th3james online. I mostly write software and complain about it.
This blog is about anything that catches my interest. Thanks for dropping by.
Things I believe
- Shipping working software to real users is the only true form of product validation.
- The majority of failures in technology products are not caused by technical issues, but by developers not properly grasping the needs of users.
- Risk is a function of change size. Integrate and deploy continuously.
- Test Driven Development leads to better software structure, while affording confidence for frequent deployment and easier refactoring.
- Teams are most effective when they choose their own working practices and refine them through regular introspection and experimentation.
- Christopher Alexander wrote the best description of what design means in the 1960s. His thinking about un-self conscious design underpins the Lean methodology, and tells us that design is best when guided by feedback from real world use.