Timothy Cochran

NEW POST #5 in the bottlenecks of scaleups series. Punit Lad and Carl Nygard explain that resilience needs to be built into the business objectives, influencing architecture, design, product management, and even governance of business systems. martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW POST As startups scale up, they find early decisions that helped them find a product/market fit lead to excessive costs once traffic increases. Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir share their approach to understanding and reducing these costs. martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW § @timcochran completes his tale of how Etsy built a product delivery culture to help clear bottlenecks as they scaled. Covers lean portfolio management, stronger product and engineering collaboration, and assessing the impact of this initiative #BlueprintForProductDelivery" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW § More lessons from Etsy's move to the cloud: @timcochran and @keyurdg discuss challenges, impact of pandemic, continuous improvement, and measuring cost and carbon usage. #WhatWereTheChallengesOfTheCloud" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW POST: As a scaleup grows, it has to deal with increased traffic, often uneven. @timcochran and @keyurdg describe how Etsy faced this, and moved its systems to the cloud. This helped cope with its user base doubling during covid martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW POST: My colleages Rick Kick and Kennedy Collins have written the third part of our series on Bottlenecks of Scaleups. Their first installment looks at the signs of friction between product and engineering. martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

@stitzl @pingles @martinfowler Noted. I am working on it!

This article on dev effectiveness is really nicely done: martinfowler.com/articles/devel… In particular, this visualisation really stood out for me:

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@AaronTushabe @raybesiga Wow! I do not remember

@raybesiga This was like almost 10 years ago but @timcochran do you recall where we got those district shape files for devtrac?

Where’s the best place to find updated shape files for the administrative units of Uganda?

The latest issue of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out thoughtworks.com/radar

NEW POST: We begin the second bottleneck of scaleups. @timcochran and Roni Smith write about how scaleups struggle to hire and become constrained by talent martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW POST: start of a series on the common bottlenecks that startups run into when they reach the scaleup stage. In this article @timcochran and Carl Nygard begin looking at tech debt: how it forms, and signs that it's becoming a bottleneck. martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

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NEW POST: Companies will often choose to buy a solution rather than building it themselves. Here @BrandonByars begins his argument that companies must build the integration between these solutions, and treat it as a first-class effort martinfowler.com/articles/cant-…

new post: many people struggle with how to handle regulatory controls in a devops environment. Carl Nygard illustrates four patterns to consider. martinfowler.com/articles/devop…

What’s @Spotify’s secret for increasing #developereffectiveness? Happy developers!🙂 And if you need help getting started with that, we happen to know some people who can help…

Optimizing micro-feedback loops in engineering – by @timcochran bit.ly/2RTOXgv

We've published our latest sweep of technologies - ThoughtWorks Radar vol 24 thoughtworks.com/radar

new post: @timcochran finishes his article on maximizing developer effectiveness by looking at organizational effectiveness with the example of Etsy #OrganizationalEffectiveness" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/devel…

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