Petter Wigle

@[email protected]. Coding Architect, Independent Consultant, Long Distance Runner, Father and Husband

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 14 years, since 25 Nov 2008 (via @twi_age).

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

IMO, _you_ do not "write stories." PMs/POs do not write stories. Nobody inside your org writes stories. Instead, capture them from your user/customers. They emerge from conversations. Listen closely. Capture what's important.

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

@matshenricson @_asa Fast det var mindre coolt när man upptäckte att tjänsten man skulle använda inte följde sin egen WSDL

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

Great thread about flexibility vs complexity trade-offs

[Simon Brown @simonbrown]

Imagine that you're building a boring CRUD app ... a server-side rendered web application talking to a relational database. Perhaps we choose Java/Spring Boot and MySQL.

[Matthias Noback @[email protected] @matthiasnoback]

Hypothesis: the moment a team adds the requirement that each PR/commit should be related to a Jira issue, it will start accumulating even more tech debt than before.

This requirement adds a penalty for making small, unrelated improvements that get the project in a better shape.

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Unit Testing or Acceptance Testing?
Actually you need both for the best test-strategy.

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[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

Most people in leadership positions I’ve met have their calendars packed with meetings. When do they get time to think?

[Picard Tips @PicardTips]

Picard management tip: Allow yourself some alone time. It may help you think.

[Stacey Vetzal 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @[email protected] @svetzal]

Let's start a campaign for NEGATIVE LINES-OF-CODE contributors in brown-field code-bases. Next-gen rockstar programmers.

"I will strip 100 of LOC liability from your code monthly."

Look from far enough away, all a developer does is type.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Striving to work at 100% capacity is a _really_ bad idea.

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

A great presentation explaining the problems with pull requests and what to do instead

[GOTO @GOTOcon]

Pull requests. Invented to manage large open-source projects, currently wrongly seen as a way to conduct code reviews. Why is it the general advice to not do them?

🗣 Join @davefarley77 in his exploration of pull requests and their alternatives.

https://t.co/2EVgDbukK2

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

I can relate to all of this 🙂

[Per Lundholm 🇺🇦 @perlundholm]

Computer programming history summarised in a song.

https://t.co/kOt8S9NEft

[Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic]

Oftentimes you meet people who claim "TDD doesn't work". Not sure what exactly those people mean by "doesn't work"? It's often like saying "investing your money doesn't work". Yeah, if you're not good at investing, for sure it doesn't work.

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

@mahnve Interested in hearing what the biggest issues have been.

[Marit van Dijk ☕️🥑 @MaritvanDijk77]

"Do Continuous Integration." "Code reviews have sucked since the beginning of time. If you need four eyes on the code, try pair programming." - Erik Dörnenburg @GeeCON

[Picard Tips @PicardTips]

Picard management tip: Refusing to decide is the worst decision you can make.

[Richard Spindler @oracle2025]

Public institutions spend millions on software development projects 🧑‍💻👨‍💻👩‍💻

But, these projects often fail or underdeliver massively 💸

Here is how taxpayer money can be saved 💰 by training developers in Test-Driven-Development 🤷‍♂️

🧵 👇

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

If you think you must do something (e.g. Sprints, backlogs, story points, estimation, meetings, &c.) to be Agile, perhaps you don't fully understand what Agile is. It has nothing to do with rigid practices or frameworks. See https://t.co/Q8eHPEMzF8

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

💯 A professional cook doesn't ask for permission to clean their tools, before moving on to the next dish.
Refactoring is the same.
We should not ask permission to do a professional job!!

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

"No Estimates" is the _result_ of adopting agile ways of thinking and working, not a goal or directive. Work in a way that estimates aren't necessary or desirable in an org with a culture of trust, and you will have no estimates.

[Petter Wigle @petterwigle]

”TDD is fun, smooth, and helps me go fast. It helps me do my thing, which is programming better today than yesterday.” I totally agree!