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Peter Hilton

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Product manager in 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, available for a new role from November 2025 • speaker, writer, and musician • blogs software product management/design/development at https://hilton.org.uk/blog/

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 1d

Post-agile software development: topics from Agile Cambridge 2025 #agile hilton.org.uk/blog/post-ag...

Post-agile software development

topics from Agile Cambridge 2025

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 11h

‘What makes Product Managers hetrogenous’ – Allan Kelly’s write-up of our discussion last week, based on his recent articles #product https://www.allankelly.net/archives/10515/what-makes-product-managers-hetrogenous/

Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 1d

Post-agile software development: topics from Agile Cambridge 2025 #agile hilton.org.uk/blog/post-ag...

Post-agile software development

topics from Agile Cambridge 2025

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 1d

Yes, and then you’ve got yourself a nice little zero-bug policy hilton.org.uk/presentation... 😀

Zero-bug policy success

A practice for reducing software development waste #presentation

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 3d

In the conversations I’ve had at this week’s conference, I’ve heard that people are still managing backlogs of hundreds of bugs, and that these backlogs continue to cause meetings. That’s the problem to solve.

Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 3d

That would be @edzitron.com and, for example, https://www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 3d

When the probabilities trend low enough, it deletes itself 💥

Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 3d

Startup idea: solve the problem of huge unfixed bug backlogs.

Build a bug tracker that analyses each new bug report, based on past bug-fixing behaviour, and predicts the likelihood that you will ever fix the bug.

It typically recommends that you don’t bother creating the bug report.

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 4d

Two of the Extreme Programming (XP) testing practices:

1. ‘All code must pass all unit tests before it can be released.’
2. ‘When a bug is found tests are created.’

💡 If you create those tests before other code changes, before the next release, the first rule makes XP a zero-bug policy.

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 5d

I have now arrived at the spiritual home of committing changes directly to the main branch 🚆

Train station: platform sign reads ‘Acton Main Line’

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Dylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie · 6d

I'm in Dordrecht for @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode conf tomorrow, and they left a little gift pack of speaker goodies in my hotel room including this, and I think it's absolutely delightful. ❤️

It's one of those things you hang on your hotel room door but instead of saying DO NOT DISTURB it says DON'T WORRY. I AM NOT TALKING TO MYSELF. I AM REHEARSING MY TALK.

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 5d

We now have a generation of developers who’ve never experienced an alternative to blocking code reviews.

But pull requests aren’t anyone’s security blanket, and it will only take a new fashion to change this.

Thierry’s excellent presentation is a call to action for the trend setters.

Trunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 6d

The slide deck of my session

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

Thank you for all the interesting questions and the lovely feedback. I’m truly grateful for that ☺️

#agilecam

thinkinglabs.io/talks/2024/0...

Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a Case Study

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David Legge ~ @TheCodeCleaner @thecodecleaner.bsky.social · 6d

The reality of his much time goes on the non-Value add work allows focus on reducing MUDa... Nice look to Zero Bugs talk yesterday @hilton.org.uk

@jamesshore.bsky.social

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David Legge ~ @TheCodeCleaner @thecodecleaner.bsky.social · 7d

#agilecam @hilton.org.uk on Zero Bugs!

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 8d

As well as capital letters, we should normalise adding a typographical ‘swash’ (flourish) to the last letter of a sentence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swash_(...

Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.bsky.social · Jun 7

While writing this I overheard someone say to someone else — regarding their computer — ‘all my letters are in capitals except the “i”’s.’

This alone unleashes chains of thought, uncovers other curses. I wonder if it relates to the Turkish alphabet. I wonder why we even have “capital letters”.

Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 8d

Zero-bug policy questions: clarifications from conversations from this year #agile hilton.org.uk/blog/zero-bu...

Zero-bug policy questions

clarifications from conversations from this year

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Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 8d

Or when ‘data base’ was two words

Peter Hilton @hilton.org.uk · 14d

Is that a likely IndexOutOfBoundsException, because of the random index parameter, or is it more dangerous than that? (I’m not familiar with the API)

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