Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
Writing documents is so passé nowadays. The (software development) industry has removed this activity from typical software crafts(wo)men agendas nearly completely. The longest written forms we have to deal with are usually: commit messages, user stories in Jira, integration test specifications in some Cucumber offspring, and PR comments....
Dunno about you, but no one, ever taught me how to take notes properly. I mean - theoretically, it's not a big deal. You listen, you pay attention, you write down the most critical information and potentially underline or highlight stuff that has especially caught your attention, for...
Have you ever heard about Sturgeon's Law [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law] (SL)? It's as straightforward as a kick in the teeth, so let me quote it without further ado: > "Ninety percent of everything is crap." No, seriously, that'...
Learning how to be a (good) leader can be a journey of a life-time. As something that can't be learned in theory but only in practice, it leaves a trail of marks and scars to remind one of all the past mistakes and ... other learnings :) That's...
Disclaimer: This blog post presents my personal opinion. I speak here for myself ONLY - the statements, ideas, and judgments described below should not be linked or associated with any of my employers, neither previous nor current. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last week's Parler drama [https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/...
Brutal observation (not just mine, based on conversations with numerous people from various work environments across diverse geographies and cultures): many engineering organizations try to tackle their problems by stacking up more & more complex countermeasures, while the real solutions are, in fact, very simple. But unfortunately, even their most...
