Eng Posts

by Cody on 2025-12-05

Software engineering

Quantify Then Qualify: A Simple Framework for Engineering KPIs

by Cody on 2025-12-05 filed under eng

Every technical leader today gets the question: "How are you using AI to move faster?" My 9 year old twins ask me this at breakfast every morning, as they should. It's a great question: it's timely, it's relevant, and if we ignore it, it's *gulp* existential. But before we can answer a question like this, we need a baseline for how our organization is performing. How do we do that?

The Winter of Integration Tests

by Cody on 2023-01-04 filed under eng

Christmas can be an exciting time of year for engineers. Not only is there the sheer rush of finding out what's in figgy pudding, but things slow down enough that you can get ambitious in the codebase. If there's 1 time of year to attempt a major refactoring, it's Christmas. Meetings are few, concentration is high, and the codebase isn't shifting beneath your feet. I tried a major cleanup of my own several years back and learned a valuable lesson: don't trust humans. Ok, that's a little severe, but let me talk you though it.