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Delivery and Practice

ARTICLE

How to Make your Customers Happy and Your Engineers Even Happier

Andy Smith

August 18, 2025
IMPACT STORY

Unlocking Safer, Faster Experimentation for a Global Tech Leader

Kristin Kaeding

July 18, 2025
ARTICLE

Celebrating our Beacon: Rani Zipelwar!

Shawn DeVries

July 11, 2025
IMPACT STORY

Modernizing Legacy Systems to Keep Users First

Nick Dyer

April 16, 2025
ARTICLE

Integrating Agile in the Age of AI: Common Pitfalls and Solutions

Rani Zilpelwar

April 16, 2025
IMPACT STORY

Empowering Game Developers with Faster Builds and Better Tools

Doug Gapinski

March 28, 2025
ARTICLE

Getting Started with TDD: A Practical Guide to Beginning a Lasting Practice

Tony Distinti

March 20, 2025
RESOURCE

5 Proven Strategies for Successful Software Modernization

Brad Ediger

August 20, 2024
RESOURCE

The Potential and Pitfalls of AI-Assisted Coding

Brad Ediger

July 08, 2024
ARTICLE

How AI-Powered EMRs are Curing Healthcare's Biggest Headaches

Laney Coletti-Saracino

May 20, 2024
ARTICLE

Designing for AI: Unveiling a New Set of Personas
RESOURCE

Your Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Legacy Systems Successful

Brad Ediger

March 22, 2024
ARTICLE

The Benefits of Recreating Vendor Software In-House
ARTICLE

Empower Your Teams to Prioritize Product Safety at Every Stage

Eva PenzeyMoog

March 08, 2024
ARTICLE

The Design Process and Agile Development: Part 1 — Design Is Collaborative

Daisy Mølving

February 02, 2024
ARTICLE

Password Managers: From Skeptic to Cautious Fan

Mike O'Connell

December 27, 2023
ARTICLE

Ensemble Programming: Tips for Software Teams to Survive and Thrive

Rani Zilpelwar

October 19, 2023
ARTICLE

5 Tips to Getting Started with Ensemble Programming

Rani Zilpelwar

October 19, 2023
PODCAST

Centering Outcomes Over Outputs With Project Director Mike Danaher and Designer Hani Kruger

Jerome Goodrich

June 16, 2023
ARTICLE

Three Tips To Help Software Teammates Ramp Up

Priya Patil

January 26, 2023
ARTICLE

Finding Stability to Address Today’s Business Challenges

Kevin Kotowski

December 16, 2022
VIDEO

Optimize for People, Not Processes with Project Management

Martin Gaston

September 23, 2022
VIDEO

8 Steps to Project Planning With the Critical Path Method

Curtis Maves

September 21, 2022
PODCAST

Continuous Learning: Cultivating Engaged Teams with Paul Pagel

8th Light

March 24, 2022
ARTICLE

A Case Study in Vim Script 101: Making a Test Runner

Tony Distinti

January 05, 2021
ARTICLE

Mitigating the Risks of Small Development Teams

Malcolm Newsome

March 19, 2020
ARTICLE

How can you move from a business operating on spreadsheets to custom software? Part 2

8th Light

March 10, 2020
ARTICLE

How can your business move from operating on spreadsheets to custom software? Part 1

8th Light

March 03, 2020
ARTICLE

Axes of Quality

Colin Jones

January 14, 2020
ARTICLE

How to Write Flexible and Clear Unit Tests

Rani Zilpelwar

December 10, 2019
ARTICLE

Tickets for Specialised Teams

Nick Dyer

December 03, 2019
ARTICLE

Unit Testing Code Boundaries

Ashley Bye

June 04, 2019
ARTICLE

One Neat Trick To Avoid Rewriting Your Software Product

Doug Bradbury

April 16, 2019
ARTICLE

Product Owner's Guide to Investment Portfolio

Li-Hsuan Lung

March 05, 2019
ARTICLE

Essential & Relevant: A Unit Test Balancing Act

Thomas Countz

February 19, 2019
ARTICLE

I'm Only Going To Say This Once - Don't Repeat Yourself!

Dan Pelensky

February 05, 2019
ARTICLE

Tech to Watch in 2019

Colin Jones

December 27, 2018
ARTICLE

The True Cost of Rewrites

Doug Bradbury

November 27, 2018
ARTICLE

Jack of all trades, Master of One

Makis Otman

October 30, 2018
ARTICLE

Here’s What Happened: Five Things We Learned About Unit Tests from David Scott Bernstein

Paige Watson

September 11, 2018
ARTICLE

Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

Kyle Krull

August 13, 2018
ARTICLE

Diagnosing Problems Quickly

Sarah Sunday

May 21, 2018
ARTICLE

Talking to Yourself: Daily Standups in a Team of One

Ian Carroll

March 27, 2018
ARTICLE

The Biggest Software Mistake That Small Business Owners Make

8th Light

November 15, 2017
ARTICLE

How to Grow a User Group, the Remix

Ray Hightower

September 13, 2017
ARTICLE

New Leadership for ChicagoRuby

Ray Hightower

September 07, 2017
ARTICLE

Diversity, Inclusion, and 8th Light

Paul Pagel

August 14, 2017
ARTICLE

Hedy Lamarr: More Than the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Elizabeth Engelman

July 10, 2017
ARTICLE

API Assumption Tests

Christoph Gockel

June 14, 2017
ARTICLE

Working Effectively with Offshore Teams

Georgina McFadyen

March 27, 2017
ARTICLE

Build as Much as You Can

Jerome Goodrich

March 23, 2017
ARTICLE

Ginny Hendry: A Legacy of Learning

8th Light

February 09, 2017
ARTICLE

The App is Broken

Kevin Kotowski

January 16, 2017
ARTICLE

Wolf and Rabbit

Li-Hsuan Lung

January 09, 2017
ARTICLE

Reducing Software Costs and Mitigating Risk

Javier Saldana

December 21, 2016
ARTICLE

The Why: A Better Git Commit Message

Dariusz Pasciak

October 31, 2016
ARTICLE

Make Yourself Dispensable

Li-Hsuan Lung

October 12, 2016
ARTICLE

Chronic and Acute Problems in Software

Kevin Buchanan

October 04, 2016
ARTICLE

A Good Craftsman Never Blames His Tools

Georgina McFadyen

September 28, 2016
ARTICLE

What Will Your Legacy [Code] Be?

Colin Jones

August 30, 2016
ARTICLE

Staying Clean

Dariusz Pasciak

July 25, 2016
ARTICLE

How learning a static language helped me improve my design.

Jarkyn Soltobaeva

July 11, 2016
ARTICLE

How TDD can make your team happier

Chris Jordan

April 13, 2016
ARTICLE

Program Like a Debater: Character, Commitment, Team Work, Hard Work

Rob Mulholand

August 28, 2015
ARTICLE

When the going gets tough, craftsmen stay tougher

Mike Ebert

February 16, 2015
ARTICLE

Single Responsibility Principle: Why Does it Matter?

Elizabeth Engelman

January 22, 2015
ARTICLE

'Convenient' Does Not Necessarily Mean 'Right'

Dariusz Pasciak

August 27, 2014
ARTICLE

Software Craftsmen Are Arrogant, Slow, and Dogmatic

Paul Pagel

August 21, 2014
ARTICLE

An Appeal to CS Teachers

Dariusz Pasciak

August 13, 2014
ARTICLE

There's an Exception for That

Craig Demyanovich

June 02, 2014
ARTICLE

Yes, you can speak at a conference

Eric Smith

May 28, 2014
ARTICLE

Be Empirical

Kevin Buchanan

May 20, 2014
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 11th Edition

Rick Winfrey

March 05, 2014
ARTICLE

Courage vs. Cargo Cults

Will Warner

January 21, 2014
ARTICLE

Stuck in the Muck

Doug Bradbury

October 08, 2013
ARTICLE

I Am Not An Island

Chris Peak

September 20, 2013
ARTICLE

Another Kind of Intelligence

Will Warner

September 20, 2013
ARTICLE

Mindfulness and Stress Relief

Susan Rosso

August 26, 2013
ARTICLE

Set the Tone With Project Setup

Mike Jansen

August 07, 2013
ARTICLE

Do More of What you Want at Work: Productive Partnerships

Ben Voss

July 30, 2013
ARTICLE

Honesty Under Pressure

Mike Jansen

July 29, 2013
ARTICLE

Reflections on the 8th Light Principles: Stretching Your Boundaries

Mike Jansen

July 24, 2013
ARTICLE

Conferences, Challenges and Inspiring Great Ideas

Ben Voss

July 16, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 10th Edition

Mike Jansen

July 15, 2013
ARTICLE

What is a Craftsman?

Ben Voss

June 10, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 9th Edition

Jim Suchy

May 22, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 8th Edition

Joey Shipley

April 24, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 7th Edition

Steve Kim

April 16, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 6th Edition

Eric Smith

April 08, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 5th Edition

Li-Hsuan Lung

March 25, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 4th Edition

Myles Megyesi

March 18, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 3rd Edition

Paul Pagel

March 12, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 2nd Edition

Eric Meyer

March 08, 2013
ARTICLE

We are Principled: 1st Edition

Kevin Liddle

February 18, 2013
ARTICLE

JIT or AOT Learning?

Colin Jones

February 12, 2013
ARTICLE

Investing In Our Tools

Justin Herrick

February 11, 2013
ARTICLE

Counting Mistakes

Sue Kim

January 31, 2013
ARTICLE

Mythical Man Month - The Cliff Notes

Sue Kim

January 31, 2013
ARTICLE

Humble Pursuit of Mastery

Paul Pagel

January 24, 2013
ARTICLE

Call for Translators

Li-Hsuan Lung

November 24, 2012
ARTICLE

Environment Activist

Joey Shipley

November 16, 2012
ARTICLE

In Search of Diversity

Li-Hsuan Lung

October 06, 2012
ARTICLE

About Ergonomics

Angelique Martin

September 25, 2012
ARTICLE

Why Frameworks?

Myles Megyesi

September 12, 2012
ARTICLE

Thinking Differently About the Single Responsibility Principle

Cory Foy

August 07, 2012
ARTICLE

Accepting New Methods in the Digital World

Susan Rosso

July 16, 2012
ARTICLE

You're Going To Be Wrong

Dave Moore

July 16, 2012
ARTICLE

Entrepreneur's Guide to Buying Custom Software

Paul Pagel

June 20, 2012
ARTICLE

What do developers do all day?

Dave Moore

June 20, 2012
ARTICLE

Oh, it's not that hard

Doug Bradbury

June 18, 2012
ARTICLE

Collaborative Partnerships

Margaret Pagel

May 31, 2012
ARTICLE

Deliberate Practice

Patrick Gombert

May 15, 2012
ARTICLE

Questions and Developers

Dave Moore

May 14, 2012
ARTICLE

Craftsmanship Begins With You

Cory Foy

April 13, 2012
ARTICLE

Learn a New Language

Steve Kim

April 12, 2012
ARTICLE

A few fallacies, for your consideration

Colin Jones

April 04, 2012
ARTICLE

What Careless Code Says

Mike Jansen

March 26, 2012
ARTICLE

How to Run a Great Conference

Craig Demyanovich

March 19, 2012
ARTICLE

Warming Up

Craig Demyanovich

March 03, 2012
ARTICLE

Craftsmen, Painters, and Monks

Li-Hsuan Lung

March 02, 2012
ARTICLE

How To Keep a Handle on Your Software Development Return on Investment

Angelique Martin

February 10, 2012
ARTICLE

Effective Customer Consultant Relationships

Dave Moore

January 20, 2012
ARTICLE

8 Things You Ought to Know If You Do Not Know Anything About Hiring A Software Developer

Angelique Martin

January 19, 2012
ARTICLE

Fixed Feature

Paul Pagel

December 16, 2011
ARTICLE

Doing a Good Job

Eric Meyer

December 05, 2011
ARTICLE

Software Craftsmanship Manifesto? Duh!

Micah Martin

December 01, 2011
ARTICLE

SCNA: Why Salespeople should attend!

Margaret Pagel

November 29, 2011
ARTICLE

Front End Craftsmanship

Billy Whited

November 20, 2011
ARTICLE

Name Configuration Management Analysis Blog

Doug Bradbury

November 17, 2011
ARTICLE

Simplicity of Teamwork

Brian Pratt

October 25, 2011
ARTICLE

The Ways of Practice

Mike Jansen

September 07, 2011
ARTICLE

The Value of Practice

Mike Jansen

September 06, 2011
ARTICLE

Rolemodel Recap Day 3

Doug Bradbury

January 24, 2011
ARTICLE

Rolemodel Recap Day 2

Doug Bradbury

January 21, 2011
ARTICLE

Rolemodel Recap Day 1

Doug Bradbury

January 20, 2011
ARTICLE

Speech is silver; silence is golden

Craig Demyanovich

December 20, 2010
ARTICLE

Presence, Part 1

Doug Bradbury

December 09, 2010
ARTICLE

Goals for the growing the market of quality development

Paul Pagel

September 21, 2010
ARTICLE

Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 4

Colin Jones

July 09, 2010
ARTICLE

Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 3

Colin Jones

July 08, 2010
ARTICLE

Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 1

Colin Jones

July 07, 2010
ARTICLE

Relevance Craftsman Swap Day 2

Colin Jones

July 07, 2010
ARTICLE

International Craftsman Swap Day 4

Eric Smith

June 24, 2010
ARTICLE

International Craftsman Swap Day 3

Eric Smith

June 23, 2010
ARTICLE

International Craftsman Swap Day 2

Eric Smith

June 22, 2010
ARTICLE

International Craftsman Swap Day 1

Eric Smith

June 21, 2010
ARTICLE

JRuby Helps Us Craft Quality Software

Doug Bradbury

April 06, 2010
ARTICLE

Makin’ Somthin’

Doug Bradbury

March 15, 2010
ARTICLE

The Hammock

Doug Bradbury

March 12, 2010
ARTICLE

Walk and Code

Doug Bradbury

February 25, 2010
ARTICLE

Stubbing :new Considered Harmful

Eric Smith

February 08, 2010
ARTICLE

Zeroth rule of Professionalism

Paul Pagel

January 08, 2010
ARTICLE

A Software Craftsman’s New Year’s Resolutions

Colin Jones

December 30, 2009
ARTICLE

Thoughts from a Boutique Software Shop

Paul Pagel

September 12, 2009
ARTICLE

Why Software Development is a Craft

Doug Bradbury

August 22, 2009
ARTICLE

Reasons to Attend SCNA

Paul Pagel

June 17, 2009
ARTICLE

Bug free or Free Bugs

Paul Pagel

April 26, 2009
ARTICLE

Obtiva Craftsman Swap Day 5

Jim Suchy

April 19, 2009
ARTICLE

Obtiva Craftsman Swap Day 4

Jim Suchy

April 17, 2009
ARTICLE

Obtiva Craftsman Swap Day 3

Jim Suchy

April 16, 2009
ARTICLE

Obtiva Craftsman Swap Day 2

Jim Suchy

April 15, 2009
ARTICLE

Obtiva Craftsman Swap Day 1

Jim Suchy

April 14, 2009
ARTICLE

One Take on Configuring Rails Routes and asset_host

Jim Suchy

December 02, 2008
ARTICLE

Observing a Craftsman

Paul Pagel

November 17, 2008
ARTICLE

Agile in Buenos Aires

Micah Martin

October 29, 2008
ARTICLE

Fidelity Life Case Study

Micah Martin

October 02, 2008
ARTICLE

Customer Interaction

Eric Meyer

September 23, 2008
ARTICLE

Definition of Software Craftsman

Micah Martin

September 21, 2008
ARTICLE

Own Your Tools

Doug Bradbury

September 15, 2008
ARTICLE

Maturing the Manifesto

Doug Bradbury

August 27, 2008
ARTICLE

Tag! I'm it!

Micah Martin

July 02, 2008
ARTICLE

Developing against web browser navigation

Paul Pagel

June 27, 2008
ARTICLE

Some Thoughts on Software Defects

Paul Pagel

June 24, 2008
ARTICLE

Promises Promises

Eric Smith

May 17, 2008
ARTICLE

Wake up and code!

Paul Pagel

May 08, 2008
ARTICLE

Agile Production Support: Final brush strokes

Paul Pagel

February 18, 2008
ARTICLE

Emotional Iterations

Paul Pagel

February 07, 2008
ARTICLE

Limelight at RailsConf 2008

Micah Martin

February 04, 2008
ARTICLE

Peer Pressure

Paul Pagel

January 18, 2008
ARTICLE

Lessons Of A Craftsman: Are You Test Driving, Or Just Writing Tests?

Eric Smith

January 07, 2008
ARTICLE

A Snob

Eric Smith

September 11, 2007
ARTICLE

Lending a Hand

Jim Suchy

August 21, 2007
ARTICLE

Shake Things Up

Doug Bradbury

July 19, 2007
ARTICLE

No Really, We Do that?

Eric Smith

June 05, 2007
ARTICLE

Day Three At RailsConf

Eric Smith

May 19, 2007
ARTICLE

Day Two At RailsConf

Eric Smith

May 18, 2007
ARTICLE

Hello from RailsConf

Eric Smith

May 17, 2007
ARTICLE

Got Real?

Micah Martin

October 23, 2006
ARTICLE

Getting Real Review

Micah Martin

October 13, 2006
ARTICLE

Craftsmen are like Babelfish

Micah Martin

October 02, 2006
ARTICLE

Beware the Freebie

Micah Martin

September 07, 2006
ARTICLE

Building a City

Micah Martin

September 07, 2006
ARTICLE

Jack and Jill

Micah Martin

September 07, 2006
ARTICLE

Paper Bullet

Micah Martin

September 07, 2006

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