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This post is also available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering channel. It’s a really scary time to be a software developer. So much of our expertise feels like it’s irrelevant now. This last year has changed everything about the way we write code....
This post is also available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering channel Kent Beck once said - ‘I’m not a great developer, I’m a good developer with great habits’. Now, Kent Beck clearly is a great developer - well known for his work on JUnit as well as...
This article is also published as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel You'll have heard Dave Farley talking about the benefits of using ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development - to specify and control development with agentic AI. Today I’m looking...
This post is available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel The focus of technical coaching is the minute-by-minute habits that software developers need to create good quality working software that lasts. These days all the teams I meet are asking for...
This article is also available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering channel Have you had your “Deep Blue” moment yet? That shocking insight that the AI tool that appeared on your desktop some time ago has now got so good, it’s actually become better than you...
This post is based on a video with the same name on the Modern Software Engineering Channel Not everyone is seeing improvements from introducing AI in the development process. For the teams that were already doing well, it seems adding AI makes them go even faster....
A coding revolution has happened, just in the past few months. Augmented coding is working so well, almost everyone I know has adopted it. I’ve spoken to half a dozen or more different technical coaches in the past couple of weeks, all of whom I know were excellent...
This is a companion post to my video with the same title. Whether you’re using an AI tool to write them or not, you need tests. If you’re doing Continuous Delivery, the tests in your pipeline are essential to determine releasability. Unfortunately, it’s often a source...
This article also appears as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel. Developers have been using the Test Pyramid forever to decide what kinds of tests to invest in. This model has also been much criticised as not giving terribly helpful guidance. In this...
This article also appears in video form on the Modern Software Engineering Channel. Agentic AI-supported software development is probably the biggest shift in our field since high-level languages appeared in the 1950’s and 60’s. As a software developer you can’t...
Hi – I’m Emily!
I am a consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at technical practices like Augmented Coding with Agentic AI, Object-Oriented Design and Unit testing. I also write books and publish videos. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK.
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