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Outcomes NOT outputs
Melissa Perri’s Escaping the Build Trap articulated so many of the things I have experienced, and have been thinking about, that every...
Grant McKenna
Feb 19, 20242 min read


Kill it with fire!
Marianne Bellotti's Kill It With Fire is a great book with invaluable insights into why software ends up in the state it is in, and why...
Grant McKenna
Feb 9, 20242 min read


Big data (mal)algorithms
I have just finished reading Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction and it provides some interesting thoughts about how to avoid...
Grant McKenna
Jan 6, 20242 min read


Bridging the communication gap
This is a great book by Gojko Adzic about the closing the gap between business users and developers – and builds on his Specification by...
Grant McKenna
Dec 2, 20231 min read
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