Monthly Archives: February 2024

Flow@Scale

I posted about Tameflow a couple of weeks ago and last week posted about Probabilistic Forecasting. This wasn’t random 🙂 – I was waiting for the launch of Steve Tendon’s new initiative “Flow@Scale”! With Flow@Scale Steve obviously builds on top of principles that he’s championed with Tameflow, most significantly the “Theory Of Constraints” is key. […]

Probabilistic Forecasting

Probabilistic forecasting is a method of estimating the probability distribution for events and basing this on the past. It can be used to predict the weather or a football match score. In software development we can look at a given Feature or Release and then by providing information about the remaining work we can produce […]

Tameflow

I’ve recently been introduced to the world of Tameflow (https://tameflow.com). Maybe I should have known about it earlier but for some reason it’s the first I’ve heard about it. The author of Tameflow is Steve Tendon and, as you’d expect, he has a lot of points to make and examples to provide in a compelling […]

How Much Architecture is “Enough?”

I saw this brilliant article on InfoQ a couple of weeks ago. https://www.infoq.com/articles/mva-enough-architecture/ The article, written by Pierre Pureur and Kurt Bittner introduces a concept called MVA (Minimum Viable Architecture) that I’ve often thought about and this article discusses essentially the balancing act between MVA and MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that is often an unspoken […]