Software Engineering Completeness
summary
Defines “done” as code deployed everywhere and exercisable by users, not merely merged; requires concrete, acceptance criteria observable/testable and dates for start, deploy and feature‑flag removal. Builds a Software Engineering Completeness pyramid (Maslow analogy) and covers decommissioning, refactoring, technical debt tracking with a visible backlog and even tech debt backlog quarterly sprints to repay intentional debt, plus unit/integration/system test pillars and metrics to prove a change actually delivers value.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Software engineering completeness
- 1:27Talk inspiration
- 3:10What done means
- 6:41Business value
- 8:46Beyond customer focus
- 10:09Production changes
- 11:53Delivering change
- 13:18Acceptance criteria
- 16:07Problem domains impact
- 18:14Scope and creep
- 20:03Estimation challenges
- 22:52Why estimates matter
- 24:17Breaking changes down
- 26:49Avoiding vague commits
- 27:34Engineering pyramid of needs
- 29:01Done and acceptance
- 31:07Deployment and readiness
- 33:12Feature flags
- 35:40Codebase survival
- 36:44Survival not enough
- 37:05Code health basics
- 40:56Refactoring necessity
- 45:55Technical debt
- 49:08Debt management
- 53:41Preventing tracking debt
- 55:07Testing pillars
- 57:33Sustainability mindset
- 59:01Recap key points
- 1:00:07Conclusion wrap-up
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