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.
> TL;DR Even today, many treat leading teams as a modern form of livestock herding. Limit the information (to avoid distraction), assign tasks, make a checkpoint each week, force controlled crunch before deadline, rinse & repeat. Fortunately, we can do so much better than that, if we manage to...
> TL;DR We spend ridiculous amount of time on verifying job candidates' technical proficiency, analytical thinking, communication skills, but we rarely ask them for what they really aim for. Companies enforce their career models & internal goals / definitions of success w/o examining what really drives a potentially...
> TL;DR Surprisingly many engineers prefers to be explicitly told what to do, be given a clear end-to-end specification & the worst of all - have someone else representing them to the end of the world, translating "the current state of things" into the language everyone else...
> TL;DR Getting end-users' and sponsors' feedback is crucial if you really want to build (/enhance) a good product, but it doesn't mean that you can let them "think with solutions" and mindlessly introduce suggested changes yourself. Business insights ought to be reforged...
> TL;DR Being a Software Architect is not a Super Senior Developer role, in fact its both leadership & management (these two are not the same) role that should act in parallel (& independently!) to other management dimensions (e.g. product, engineering or project). Based on my personal experience,...
> TL;DR Practical usage of database technologies has drifted quite far from academical theory we've (or at least I've) been taught at universities. In my case some lessons learned were pretty much contrary to opposite to what I've believes was correct as a...
