Hi, I’m Lukas Witkowski, a seasoned Software Engineer and Tech Lead

Perfect software development lifecycle doesn’t exi…

This list is not complete, nor ordered by priority. Not all points are easily applicable everywhere (it depends). Just a bunch of topics I personally value during creation of digital products.

From my experience, these dramatically improve developer experience, minimize lead time and failure rate of the changes. Business people love it too.

true agility requires technical excellence
you build it, you own it, you run it
developers drive architecture - architect is a role, not a full time job
tradeoffs are essential part of this job
Trunk Based Development with short-lived branches
pushing directly to master is not a crime
master/main always shippable
optimize for fast feedback, minimize time from commit to prod
boring deployments
exciting releases
engineers talking to users
DORA metrics may be useful
100% test coverage doesn’t prove anything, but 0% means something
good monitoring is as important (sometimes even more) as test coverage
pairing for new code or at least sync code review > async pull requests
KISS > DRY, especially in tests
automated tests, TDD when it makes sense, testing diamond/pyramid
automation ftw (ci, cd, local environment, database migration, security scans, code style checks)
PR is not a place for code style discussions
feature packaging over package by layer
up-to-date runtimes and dependencies
TestContainers and Docker FTW
not every commit needs jira ticket
not every project needs jira
kanban > scrum > SAFe