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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 9h

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 9h

Myeah, I get the same reaction.

Having said, the whole code review thingy starts to be folklore, really 🤷

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 10h

This one should work

thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...

Why do Teams think Single-branch Development Does not Work?

thinkinglabs.io

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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 15d

“Anyone who believes code reviews catch bugs, believes in fairytales”

Automated and exploratory tests catches bugs…

Code reviews help lower the risk that we release low quality code.

@tdpauw.bsky.social #agilecam

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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 15d

What code reviews should not be:
* Ways to exercise power - it should be true peer reviews
* Done by seniors missing mentoring skills
* blaming or harming
* a miserable experience
* gate keeping (gates introduce delays)
* a must

@tdpauw.bsky.social #agilecam

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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 7d

It was two days of interesting talks and workshops, where three stood out to me:

First was “Non-blocking continuous code-reviews, a case story” by @tdpauw.bsky.social

I always enjoy hearing Thierry’s talks. He provides great insight in various ways of getting higher quality code :)

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 10h

Oh thank you, Stephan, for referencing my article ☺️

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 11h

I answered over @ sw-development-is.social/@TheTravelle... ➙ For more about trunk-based dev, I suggest @tdpauw.bsky.social's article thinkinglabs.io/articles/2025/… He wrote more great articles about the topic.
There's even a VCS that doesn't use branches: Jujutsu ➙ jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2025/…

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 4d

Nudging is not going to fix our lack of understanding basic principles.

#justsaying 🤷

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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 7d

Last week I spoke at Agile Cambridge, and it was great being back.

I arrived in 18 degrees so started with a walk on campus :)

As always the people and the discussions were the best parts. Some people I had not seen since before the pandemic, some were new, and some I got closer to 💕

#agilecam

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 13d

We now have a generation of developers who’ve never experienced an alternative to blocking code reviews.

But pull requests aren’t anyone’s security blanket, and it will only take a new fashion to change this.

Thierry’s excellent presentation is a call to action for the trend setters.

Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

The slide deck of my session

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

Thank you for all the interesting questions and the lovely feedback. I’m truly grateful for that ☺️

#agilecam

thinkinglabs.io/talks/2024/0...

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

thinkinglabs.io

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 13d

Oh gosh, thank you, Gerald ☺️

Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

The slide deck of my session

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

Thank you for all the interesting questions and the lovely feedback. I’m truly grateful for that ☺️

#agilecam

thinkinglabs.io/talks/2024/0...

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

thinkinglabs.io

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

Someone just told me I am an engaging speaker. Really ⁉️ 😳

But thank you, you just made my day ☺️

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

His point was that estimates do not work. He battled with his current C-level to remove estimates for these reasons.

Instead they introduced product bets with estimated value.

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

Software development may be a foreign country for the business. To gain trust we need accountability.

— @jamesshore.bsky.social #agilecam

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

To be on time 100% of the time we need to multiple the estimates by a factor of six.

#agilecam

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

Better to have no estimates than wrong estimates.

— @jamesshore.bsky.social #agilecam

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

It is still guesses at the end of the day. But it is better to have some model than a perfect model.

— @jamesshore.bsky.social #agilecam

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

eXtreme Programming is a foreign country. We do things differently!

— @jamesshore.bsky.social #agilecam

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

Software development is a foreign country. We do things differently.

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 14d

People think software development is about writing code. It is not!

It is about:

Communication
Collaboration
Simplicity
Courage
Respect

-- XP Values, @kentbeck.com

@jamesshore.bsky.social #agilecam

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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 15d

This is the article behind the talk that @tdpauw.bsky.social delivered just now:

thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...

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Non-Blocking, Continuous Code Reviews - a case study

thinkinglabs.io

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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 15d

I always enjoy hearing @tdpauw.bsky.social talk :)

This time he is talking about non-blocking code reviews.

He always provides great insight on technical topics and new ways to get better code quality :)

#agilecam

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Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 15d

Oh wow 🤩 (blush, blush) ☺️

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