Using Complicated Subsystem Teams separates the complicated part to reduce the cognitive load on stream-aligned teams. Separation of concerns and decoupling are fundamental techniques in software engineering. The key part and difficulty is the sustainability of a complicated subsystem team. When this team is formed...

After long bouts of work—months and months uninterrupted—I become a slug person; small hurdles spike my anxiety, my anger flares at the slightest confrontation, I notice fewer jokes, fewer attempts on my part to make people laugh. My memory goes to all hell too and I can’t seem to concentrate on prolonged amounts of...