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Move from "here's the story of the system" to "here's what's red and here's the intervention that makes sense for your situation." If you're considering legacy modernization, leadership needs a scored diagnosis: every finding rated on how bad and problem type. https://link.testdouble.com/28cb6b

Most teams are excellent at measuring whether code is correct. Fewer know how to tell if it's actually working—or delivering the intended business impact. Read Jed Schneider's new blog, After the tests pass: https://link.testdouble.com/d98744

Teams actually shipping AI products build a system that keeps agents honest with humans in charge. Principal Consultant Dave Mosher talked with Traingent CTO Wayne Marley about how this shaped the way Ride with Dave was built. https://link.testdouble.com/14515b

Mission: Get rid of paper forms & manual entry, with no full-time dev team, to help HRS scale. Fix: HIPPA compliant web app in English & Spanish, plus 24/7 chat. Results: Multi-patient assistance scaling & sole Medicaid vendor for major Ohio health systems. https://link.testdouble.com/bf6618

4 days, 210 commits, and 17 pull requests - the story of how River Bailey wrote this post, and prototyped a new Claude Code skill, lives in these details: https://link.testdouble.com/a916b6

Talk to someone else who gets it. We offer free office hours to talk about challenging problems. Pair with an experienced software developer or product manager who will ask you curious questions to help get you unstuck. https://link.testdouble.com/b0de11

Foundation models are getting better and cheaper every quarter. So what's left to build a defensible product on? We think that's people and domain expertise. We observed this first hand while partnering with Traingent to build Ride with Dave. https://link.testdouble.com/1df281

Test Double Co-Founder & CEO Todd Kaufman talked with Traingent Co-Founder & CEO Rikky Singh about product development in the AI era, and shares some thoughts inspired by our partnership working on Ride with Dave. https://link.testdouble.com/80b445

Product strategy case study: Prescription delivery startup with 20 initiatives but no clarity. 6-week sprint created strategic alignment, pared down to 3 focus areas, launched new product in record time. Result: $2M revenue potential + path to profitability. https://link.testdouble.com/dbf200

Facing a lack of standards and capabilities in the industry, Pelagic Research Services developed mission-critical emergency software for the ocean's final frontier in partnership with Test Double. Read the full case study: https://link.testdouble.com/17b970

Principles without consequences are aspirations. Senior Product Manager Michael Toland shares a framework for turning codified culture into real behavioral change. Learn more: https://link.testdouble.com/6648fc

Our CEO Todd Kaufman suspects more executives are running the build versus buy math on Salesforce than are willing to say so out loud. Here's what actually changes that calculation, and what doesn't: https://link.testdouble.com/0d33c0

AI tooling gives developers time back in their day, but fills it with more tickets. Is that productivity, or just more motion? River Lynn Bailey on why "did this make me faster" is the wrong question, and "did this make my life more human" is the right one: https://link.testdouble.com/ad01f5

Stuck on a tough challenge? ➡️ Debugging a gnarly codebase? ➡️ Wondering whether to do a rewrite or refactor your legacy system? ➡️ Evaluating if your product idea is solving the right problem? We've got you covered: free, no strings attached office hours Book here 👉 https://link.testdouble.com/x5r

Infrastructure bottleneck case study: Mode's deployment requests funneled through one team using Salt. The fix: Build Terraform modules + custom CircleCI orbs for autonomous deployments. 5+ teams deploying 15+ services independently with hugely better throughput. https://link.testdouble.com/199eec

Software becomes legacy by succeeding long enough to accumulate the weight of every decision and shortcut made along the way. AI is changing legacy modernization, but not everything is getting better. Read the full article from CEO Todd Kaufman: https://link.testdouble.com/05b716

40 servers, EKS cluster, and AWS bills that didn't match capacity meant a 3-person dev team spent more time on infrastructure than features. Fix: Audit, containerization, ECS over EKS. Results: 25% reduced costs, 40 servers to 3 + serverless ECS, safe deploys. https://link.testdouble.com/9f18c4

SF Tech Week is in full swing! We're making the rounds at events across San Francisco, connecting with founders, tech leaders, and the people building what's next. With conversations spanning #AI, #softwareengineering, & more, there's plenty to dig into. #SFTechWeek #TechLeadership

Recruiters are buried under AI-written applications and fake profiles. The candidates standing out are the ones who sound like themselves. Test Double Director of Recruitment Anya Iverova on four ways to cut through: https://link.testdouble.com/602122

An eightfold speedup is an engineering win. Is it a product win? What World of Warcraft taught Dave Mosher about AI, user delight, and making software people would miss. https://link.testdouble.com/84411f

A hospital system built a perfect scheduling UI. Launched it and then realized almost no appointments were available. The tech worked—the operational problem didn't. When root causes are process and culture, rewrites won't fix it. https://link.testdouble.com/fd7ef4

The real prerequisite for effective AI at work isn't more autonomy. It's organizational observability: making intent visible enough for humans and agents to act well. https://link.testdouble.com/7b4361

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Our first-ever Circles Live is in the books! Thanks to everyone who joined us, brought their challenges to the group, and helped make the event a success. Interested in getting involved? Applications for our virtual Software Leadership Circles open at the end of October. More info coming soon!

#AI made writing code faster, and #software delivery didn't speed up to match. The Theory of Constraints predicted exactly this outcome forty years ago, and it also tells you what to do about it. Test Double's River Bailey explores what this means: https://link.testdouble.com/7cffe0

77% of healthcare execs measure tech success by efficiency. Only 16.7% of teams are asked to impact customer experience. That gap keeps the symptom cycle going. Our framework for breaking it: https://link.testdouble.com/e6d858

We're back from a big week at #RailsWorld! Our booth was full of conversations about careers, how AI is changing the work, and what's ahead. We're especially proud of the crew in this photo. Didn't get a chance to pair with us at the show? Contact us: https://testdouble.com/contact

Manual testing has value. But it can't keep up with feature complexity. Senior Software Consultant Gabriel Côté-Carrier on why automated testing is essential, and where humans still do the work machines can't. https://link.testdouble.com/cd4ef1

Tech debt isn't the disease—it's a symptom. The real root causes: siloed data, wrong metrics, and misalignment between leadership and tech teams. Part 3 of our healthcare research series digs in: https://link.testdouble.com/e6d858

Quality software is expensive because the parts users notice least often require the most work: usability, reliability, security, compliance, testing, and long-term maintenance. https://link.testdouble.com/e56cb9

Mission: CPower needed a critical prototype + team staffing simultaneously Fix: Delivered Elixir simulation systems (real-time + time-accelerated) & onboarded new team thru pairing + architectural decision records. Result: Production systems + prepared team 💚 https://link.testdouble.com/3c94f3

Day 1 of Rails World is in the books! We had some great pairing sessions yesterday in the Double Up Lab. Stop in to see us today in the Sponsor Lounge and bring something to work on: a legacy system challenge, an AI tooling question, or whatever you're working on. #RailsWorld #RubyOnRails

The Double Up Lab is officially underway at #RailsWorld, and our duck has been making the rounds while the team talks #Rails, tackles problems, and catches up with the community. If you're here, find us in the Sponsor Lounge or sign up for a pairing session: https://testdouble.com/pairing-railsworld

With agentic tools writing code, it feels natural to fill the time by reaching for the next task. But have you considered what you might be losing? River Bailey digs in to understand why we should protect downtime instead of filling it with more activity. https://link.testdouble.com/661732

You committed the fix. But everything you learned along the way went nowhere. Staff Software Consultant Rick Reilly shares a practice borrowed from TDD's red-green-refactor loop, which gives that hard-won knowledge somewhere to land. https://link.testdouble.com/f8f108

Healthcare teams spend more time managing tech than improving care. Our research reveals why healthcare tech and product teams need to focus on root causes, not symptoms. https://link.testdouble.com/a8bdb4

Nine years running! We are proud to share that Test Double has made #Inc5000. We help companies modernize aging systems, adopt AI in ways that return value, and move faster without cutting corners. We're grateful to keep doing that work, year after year! More: https://link.testdouble.com/2a53bf

We're excited to host Software Leadership Circles Live next week! Join us on September 24th in the Columbus area as we bring together 30-40 software leaders for one day, in one room, with nobody pitching anything. Request your seat: https://link.testdouble.com/be1bb9

We often mistake effort for value. By combining feedback, work history, and AI, James Walker discovered that the work that felt easiest was often what others valued most. Read the blog: https://link.testdouble.com/bcbf44

Curious how AI fits into your development workflow? Rails bug you can't shake? Legacy system you're trying to modernize? Bring it to the Double Up Lab at #RailsWorld! Stop by the Sponsor Lounge to pair with a Test Double consultant. Book a session here: https://testdouble.com/pairing-railsworld

Most organizations expect agentic tooling to greatly increase the speed at which we write code. But there's another benefit in this new world that may not get as much as attention as it deserves: accessibility. River Bailey discusses accessibility in the age of AI. https://link.testdouble.com/ec7ae7

Heading to #RailsWorld? Grab 30 minutes with one of our senior consultants to pair on whatever you're working through, whether it's a stubborn bug, a legacy system challenge, a tricky upgrade, how AI fits into your workflow, or career advice. 🔗 Sign up: https://testdouble.com/pairing-railsworld

Remember when web crawlers were called "spiders"? Bots were stitching the internet together from the beginning. Now the fabric is worn and we're all restitching it. AI tools will help. Humans decide the pattern. https://link.testdouble.com/141dd6

79% of healthcare tech leaders cite limited budget as their top blocker. Yet the real constraint isn't money—it's solving the wrong problems. Our ongoing research points to patterns. And we've got a useful framework to start diagnosing root causes. https://link.testdouble.com/389f5e

Move from "here's the story of the system" to "here's what's red and here's the intervention that makes sense for your situation." If you're considering legacy modernization, leadership needs a scored diagnosis: every finding rated on how bad and problem type. https://link.testdouble.com/28cb6b

A 1,000-line setup guide made onboarding feel like navigating fog. So Jeremy Fairbank built a Claude skill to be the captain: a documentation companion that guides developers through setup step by step. Six lessons from the build: https://link.testdouble.com/5c7ba7

Most teams are excellent at measuring whether code is correct. Fewer know how to tell if it's actually working—or delivering the intended business impact. Read Jed Schneider's new blog, After the tests pass: https://link.testdouble.com/d98744

Talk to someone else who gets it. We offer free office hours to talk about challenging problems. Pair with an experienced software developer or product manager who will ask you curious questions to help get you unstuck. https://link.testdouble.com/b0de11

AI makes teams move faster. It doesn't make legacy code easier to live with. That's the kind of problem we want to dig into with you at #RailsWorld. Bring a legacy system, a question about using #AI without letting tests and architecture slip, and more: https://testdouble.com/pairing-railsworld

Senior DevOps Consultant Joé Dupuis says stop spamming the permission button on Claude. Learn how to set up Claude Code's sandbox so your AI agent works freely and securely without constant interruptions. Get the illustrated guide and get in the box: https://link.testdouble.com/fef21c