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Pawel Brodzinski
Personal blog · brodzinski.comcareerbusinessstartups
Pawel Brodzinski's personal blog at brodzinski.com covers career, business and startups. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Cumulative Flow Diagram (2013)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pawel Brodzinski's blog for posts on software team practices: a daily standup guide that favours walking a Kanban board, queueing theory for software development, and cumulative flow diagrams.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Whatever it takes to lead a team, build a product, and run a business
Most-linked posts?
- Cumulative Flow Diagram (2013)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-18
- Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22
- The Role of Alignment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-01
- We Will Not Trust Autonomous AI Agents Anytime Soon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-16
What Hacker News says?
Since I haven't mentioned the context in the article, it is a small agency with a customer target of early-stage (ideally earliest-stage) product startups. We have literally one half-hour-long sync meeting a week. The rest is as lightweight as possible, typically averaging below 10 minutes daily with clients (when all the decisions happen on the fly). I've worked in the corpo world, too, and it is anything but. We d…
Comment linking /2025/08/most-underestimated-factor-estimation.html
on “Development speed is not a bottleneck”Submitted Milk Kanban as a story · 435 points
HN discussionI've pretty much given up on the old Scrum-style standup. It's just another form of torture that to put devs through. I agree with the ceremony itself, but for development teams, or even worse operation teams, trying to catalog and remember all the things you did yesterday, or Friday, is painful. Since we've moved over to Kanban, I've found it's much more useful to walk the board. We start on the right and move to t…
Comment linking /2011/12/effective-standups.html
on “A Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup ”Submitted Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture as a story · 61 points
HN discussion"Even without AI-generated code, [code review] is already a major failing." By all means, yes. Yet, it feels like we were playing a catch-up game (to a degree), and no one intentionally shipped unreviewed code. Now, reviewed without comprehension becomes standard, unreviewed & unread increasingly happens. That's a different kind of reckless. "Open source adds thousands of (unpaid) eyes to code review." True. And the…
Comment linking /2025/12/pay-for-resume-read.html
on “The Ultimate Question: What Does the Endgame Look Like?”Submitted A Non-Obvious Answer to Why the AI Bubble Will Burst as a story · 30 points
HN discussionIs http://brodzinski.com/2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html good? If so, I'll send a repost invite for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903965 . Then please come back and post about it again :)
Comment linking /2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html
on “Queueing Theory: An introduction for software development”Submitted Check Your Fucking Sources, People as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Will Not Trust Autonomous AI Agents Anytime Soon as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Care-Driven Development: The Art of Giving a Shit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Role of Alignment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Will Not Trust Autonomous AI Agents Anytime Soon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Has Broken Hiring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Physical Whiteboards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cumulative Flow Diagram (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Limit WIP Early as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We 3.5x'd Our Pull Requests with AI: Now We Catch Fewer Bugs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conway's Law Teaches a Grim Lesson About AI in Product Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ultimate Question: What Does the Endgame Look Like? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Lego Can Teach Us about Autonomy and Engagement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would You Pay to Have Your Resume Read? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Fail to Change (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Renaissance of Full-Stack Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Role of Alignment – Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practices, Principles, Values (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slacker Manifesto as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cumulative Flow Diagram as a story · 1 points
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