Lucas F. Costa

How to do a successful Hacker News launch

Why backlogs are harmful, why they never shrink, and what to do instead

How to distort Scrum until it no longer works

You don't need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right.

Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead

Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them

The Minimum Viable Nothing: ideas to validate products without building them

How not to build a bike shed

Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix them

Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them