Flutter promises a lot. It has also quite a few new interesting characteristics that are attractive to a CTO. When is it production-ready for your next app and how does it stack up against native apps and React Native? Will it survive and thrive over time? And for what type of projects is it suitable […]
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A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App, Take Two
Update Mar 6, 2020: The first_app is now available in Google Play store and as an iOS beta! When I open-sourced my work in July 2019 as a result of an investigation into the state of the Flutter tools and eco-system for production-quality mobile apps, I also decided to write an article about it and […]
A Practical Approach to Engineering Leadership
In my previous post on the new engineering leadership skills needed in a devops world, I called for a more systematic approach to developing leadership capabilities in engineering. But I gave no answers. In this post, I’ll share my practical approach to developing leadership capabilities in an engineering organisation. When developing great software, there are […]
A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App
Flutter is a cross-platform UI framework that quickly gained traction. Back in mid-2018, it was made available as a release preview. Since then it has moved from an immature technology to a fairly robust foundation for building cross-platform apps. The starter app I tinkered with back then to explore the limitations has become a source […]
Using Pivotal Assumptions to Increase Velocity
Pivotal assumption – “An assumption on business case, priority, minimum viable offer, or requirement that if false will fundamentally change designs, deliverables, or timelines.” In my post on how organisational factors increase the bad impact of architectural debt, I referred to how the lack of clear business objectives and priorities slow you down and prevent […]