Scott Keck-Warren

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Scott Keck-Warren is the founder of UnleashedPodcasts.com, the host of the Community Corner Podcast, and the creator of educational content for web application developers on the PHP Architect YouTube Channel. If he’s not writing code, he’s playing with his family, camping, or building Legos.

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Recent Posts

September 21, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 21, 2026

Happy Monday All! Two of this week's pieces landed on the same theme without me planning it: good tooling ideas travel between languages. Pull requests sit because nobody owns them. Tag four reviewers and you get diffusion of responsibility, where...

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September 18, 2026

Make Code Review Your Default Next Task

Not a long time ago (three days ago actually), I opened a pull request (PR), tagged the appropriate reviewers, and moved on, assuming it would quickly get picked up and reviewed. Later (today), I came back to find the PR in the same state I left it....

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September 14, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 14, 2026

Happy Monday All! A team estimates a sprint at 8 points, a stakeholder multiplies by 4, promises Thursday, and everyone ends up frustrated over a date the team never agreed to. That scenario is why I wrote this. Effort belongs to the task, time...

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September 11, 2026

Story Points Measure Effort, Not Time

Over and over again, I've watched a sprint go sideways in the most predictable way possible. Our team pointed a sprint at 8 points and went home only to find the next morning a stakeholder had done some "math". He took our historical average, decided...

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