Articles by Dave Karow

Author: Dave Karow

Dave has three decades of experience in developer tools, developer communities, and evangelizing sustainable software delivery practices. He has held programming, product management, and product marketing roles at Sun Microsystems, Gupta Technologies, Remedy Software, Marimba, Keynote Systems (Dynatrace), SOASTA, and BlazeMeter. Dave’s current passion is demystifying progressive delivery, especially the ways it enables better outcomes by removing constraints and building-in feedback loops.

The Value of Not Knowing

December 10, 2020January 14, 2021 /industry-trends

Believing you have all the answers before you start is the surest path to waste and unnecessary suffering along the way.

Do You Really Need that Change Advisory Board?

August 28, 2020November 17, 2020 /industry-trends

If our organizations want to survive this period of political and economic uncertainty, they must be able to move with speed and adaptability.

Adaptability in Software Development Must be Powered by Informed Action

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 /industry-trends

The same tools and practices that make modern software delivery sustainable and efficient are what our organizations need to achieve greater adaptability.

Why You Need Feature Flags as a Service

July 1, 2020April 13, 2021 /industry-trends

Why build or buy a robust feature flags as a service platform when you could just implement a simple toggling mechanism as a one-off and be done with it?

Continuous Integration: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

June 19, 2020June 26, 2020 /industry-trends

Blind spots have a way of coming back to bite you down the road. When building software, the size of that “bite” grows exponentially with time.