The Age of Agile We live in the agile age in the tech world. It traces back to the Agile Manifesto in 2001 - almost 24 years ago. In those formative years, startups used agile techniques to ship products quickly, fail fast, and fail forward. That’s how you build good software. Revolutionary in the age of waterfall where companies would take years to develop some fully fledged program before going to market. ...
Engineers have a curious relationship with their tools. Take Confluence, a platform many love to hate. It’s clunky, inconsistent, and often a source of frustration. As engineers curse its name when they’re forced to hunt through disorganised pages or wrestle with broken permissions. But even in our disdain, there is a kind of grim acceptance. Confluence, for all its flaws, is a familiar beast—predictable in its chaos, manageable with enough effort and has some features that we come to enjoy like markdown support and embedded graphs. What engineers often forget, however, is the immutable law of systems: there is always something worse out there. ...