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Todd Sedano
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Todd Sedano's personal blog at sedano.org covers programming and career. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Considerate Pair Programming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Todd Sedano's site for its explanations of software development waste terms, such as backlog inversion, and for articles by one of the paper's authors on the same topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to my blog
Most-linked posts?
- /software-development-wastes/mismanaging-the-backlog.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-30
- Considerate Pair Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-15
What Hacker News says?
A good explanation of a couple of these terms were found here: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/mismanaging-th... "This waste is also related a tension: intransigence versus capricious trashing. Responding to change quickly is a core tenet of agile development and often thought of as the opposite of refusing to change. However, responding to change is more like a middle ground between intransigence (unr…
Comment linking /software-development-wastes/mismanaging-the-backlog.html
on “Software Development Waste”Submitted Considerate Pair Programming as a story · 8 points
HN discussionOne of the authors also had a list of articles about this on his website, which I think might be similar to the paper content: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/index
Comment linking /software-development-wastes/index
on “Software Development Waste”Submitted Considerate Pair Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFYI, you can read about those issues in more detail from one of the authors’ (Todd Sedano) website: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/index
Comment linking /software-development-wastes/index
on “Software Development Waste”Nice at a high level but I have some gripes about the details: 1. It says "asynchronous communication" is categorically a cause of ineffective communication, but only "inefficient" meetings are a cause of ineffective communication. Glaring old-fogey double standard. 2. I was curious what "backlog inversion" is and found a definition here: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/mismanaging-th... . Apparently i…
Comment linking /software-development-wastes/mismanaging-the-backlog.html
on “Notes on Software Development Waste”