Archive - Questionably Functional

Building Software for The Infinite Game

The Infinite Game Simon Sinek, an author and speaker on business leadership, advocates for playing the infinite game in business. Finite games are…

Nov 21, 2023 •

October 2023

Why Service Teams are the answer to your DevOps woes

Operations is the lifeblood of any software-as-a-service team, yet is frequently treated as a second-rate consideration. Software developers focus on…

Oct 11, 2023 •

So you got your first software engineering job...

You’ve just graduated college or finished a bootcamp and landed your first job. You’re walking into a situation unlike anything you’ve ever known. How…

Oct 4, 2023 •

September 2023

Domain-Driven Organizations

Weaponize Conway's Law and Domain Modeling to produce a strong socio-technical system fully aligned with your business needs

Sep 27, 2023 •

Your Organization Isn't a Hierarchy

How many natural systems are strict hierarchies? That is, for each node in the system, there is one node that is in some way superior to it, until you…

Sep 20, 2023 •

Running Projects: A Systems Approach

It can be daunting for an engineer to take on leading their first large project. They may have a dozen engineers, multiple work streams, intense…

Sep 13, 2023 •

Remote Work Isn't Ineffective, It's Just Different

Anyone who has always cooked on a gas stove and then switched to electric will decry electric stoves as an objectively inferior solution. Conversely…

Sep 6, 2023 •

August 2023

What is "Questionably Functional"?

A world of systems Systems rule our lives in ways that aren’t always obvious. These can be massive systems, like the economy. These can be small…

Aug 30, 2023 •

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