Steve Fenton is a programmer, (hands-on) architect, and theory-y/human-centric manager mostly working around the .NET space. He enjoys creating software that makes a difference to people’s lives; such as mail transfer agents with zero-day threat detection or clinical decision support engines. Steve has been active in the whole DevOps life-cycle and enjoys coaching people on agile and lean methods (and the theories behind them). He also enjoys finding fractal principles; such as those found in monitoring and alerting, or in queuing theory.

Books by Steve Fenton

A Note From Steve

This is my personal journal where I store ideas, notes, and information to supplement my biological abilities. My interests are programming, psychology, philosophy and critical thinking, and the Oxford Comma. The journal largely covers the order software progressio and the families modum translitterandi, processus, and populus. I am also secretly S. M. Fenton the author of The Vanishing Room.

Recent Journals

You can review my full archive of journals, but the most recent entries are listed below.

• The Disheartening Early Phase of Cycle Times Posted in: Process - Whenever I implement cycle-time as a metric, I have to explain that there is a slightly disheartening early phase to…
• On Being an Introverted Extrovert Posted in: Psychology - There is a general pop-psychology perception that people have a personality type. This has been embedded into the collective mindset…
• Humans vs Machines: Augmented AI Posted in: Automation - I recently attended an event in Manchester, organised by BJSS and Microsoft, on the subject of AI and ML. The…
• Sociable Pomodoro Timer Posted in: Process - When you are using The Pomodoro Technique® there is always a bit of a choice to make about your timer.…
• Behind the BizOps Buzz: Comparison Over Time Posted in: Analytics - This is a quick note about checking trends over time, and why you probably ought to check both a rolling…
• Behind the BizOps Buzz: Metric MLA Posted in: Analytics - We all know that BizOps is gaining momemntum and that we need to think about how we take care of…
• Minification Failed. Returning Unminified Contents. Posted in: Programming - Has you ASP.NET applicaiton reported that minification failed? If you are using bundles in application, you might come across this…
• Use PowerShell to Count the Number of Elements in XML Files Posted in: Programming - I needed to know how many pictures were being sent in a collection of XML documents, so I wrote a…
• The Phase Precision Premise Posted in: Process - When I worked on the technical side of software development, I talked a great deal about #NoEstimates. I'm now on…
• Analytics: More Users Than Sessions Posted in: Analytics - Analytics are super-useful but can get a bit tricky at times. For some reason, several of those times seem to…