Ines Kovač
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The rewrite we did not do
We spent a fortnight planning a full rewrite, wrote down what the new system would have to do, and discovered…
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One thing at a time
For a year, my team worked on exactly one thing at a time. We shipped less in the first quarter…
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Why I stopped estimating in days
A number of days sounds like a measurement and behaves like a promise. I now give a range, name the…
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On deleting code, deliberately
Every line we keep is a line someone has to read, test and be slightly afraid of. Deleting code is…
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The best hire I made had the worst interview
She froze at the whiteboard and apologised twice. Six years later she runs a platform team. What that interview taught…
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Three weeks on one bug
The fix was one line. Finding it took three weeks, two wrong theories and a spreadsheet nobody wanted to fill…