CASE: Continuous Agile Software Engineering is a practical framework for building software in small, tested steps that reach users continuously. It collects the practices I developed and refined over my career, and especially at General Services Corp, where I built a reporting portal that went live with role-based security and its first reports in its first week, then grew it to hundreds of reports while pushing to production several times a day.
The book is for software engineers, team leads, and engineering managers who want their teams to deliver more, with fewer bugs and less wasted effort.
Keep it simple. Minimize complexity in code, processes, and tools, and remove work that doesn't add value, so the product stays easy to change.
Plan continuously. Rather than mapping out every problem and guessing at solutions up front, focus on the immediate need, research it properly, and build the best solution for it. Small steps remove duplicated effort and keep decisions based on facts rather than guesses.
Automate everything you can. Testing, building, and deployment should run automatically, so engineers spend their time on the product.
Integrate and deliver continuously. Work in a single main branch, test every change automatically, and deploy to production as often as possible, so users get improvements quickly and every release carries little risk.
Empower engineers. Give engineers ownership of their code and trust them to research, test, and decide on solutions. Engineers who own their work are more motivated, and the quality of the work follows.
The book organizes these ideas into twelve tenets, each with three core principles. Read a summary of the twelve tenets, or visit SoftwareStandards.dev for the standards in more depth.
The book is available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions on Amazon.
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