Andy Weir

Beyond “Just Try Harder”- Three effective strategies to tackle bugs - Andy Weir YouTube video by Agile on the Beach

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🎤 Beyond "Just Try Harder": Three practical ways to tackle bugs

More effort doesn’t fix broken systems – it just hides them.

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andyweir.consulting

Big day. After 15 years with Headforwards, I'm setting out solo.

Thanks to everyone I've learned from along the way.
Now it's Andy Weir Consulting: working alongside teams under pressure, helping leaders fix what slows delivery down.

#SoftwareDelivery #TechLeadership

Three Effective Strategies to Tackle Bugs: Part 2 - Smaller, Safer Changes Smaller, safer changes beat release-day roulette. How we sliced legacy, added seams, and kept main releasable — moving from two-week releases to two days.

Release day shouldn’t feel like roulette.

In Part 2 of this 3-part series, I show how we made changes smaller, safer, and more frequent - moving from two-week "maybe" releases to every two days.

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Three Effective Strategies to Tackle Bugs: Part 1 - Fast Feedback Slow tests = slow teams. Learn how fast feedback loops helped a HealthTech org cut bugs, reclaim 20+ hours/dev/month, and rebuild trust in delivery.

"Just try harder" isn’t a strategy — it’s a symptom.

In Part 1 of this 3-part series, I show how we rebuilt trust in feedback by fixing the system, not blaming the team.

andyweir.consulting/insights/fas...

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Spite Driven Development

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Keep cattle, not pets

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Waterfalls are for hikes

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AI gives people super powers

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£2k quote for therapy cured my impostor syndrome

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Agile on the Beach Business & Technology Conference 2012, Cornwall UK YouTube video by Agile on the Beach

Blast from the past - some familiar (if younger) faces.

📺 2012 video: youtube.com/watch?v=sWW2...
📸 2012 photos: flickr.com/photos/agile...

Just spoke at Agile on the Beach.
My 13th time at the conference.
First one? 2012.

Back then:
— Raspberry Pi had just launched
— Michael Feathers and Ebon Upton keynoted
— It was small, scrappy, full of possibility

#AOTB2025 felt just as special.

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Stuck in bug whack-a-mole mode? This talk is for you.

If you're at AOTB, come say hi 👋

Last week, I gave a 10-minute lightning talk at #LDX3 in London
Next week, I’m on the Engineering stage at #AOTB2025 with the full 45-minute version

🎤 Beyond “Just Try Harder”: Three effective strategies to tackle bugs

#AOTB2025 #JustTryHarderIsntAStrategy #SoftwareBugs #SoftwareDelivery

Beyond "try harder": Effective strategies to tackle bugs “Just try harder” isn’t a strategy. Learn three proven approaches – monitoring bugs, managing legacy systems, and optimizing feedback loops – that empower teams to deliver better software.

I'm on the telly 📺

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