Sebastian Gebski

Sebastian Gebski

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.

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Micromanage & prosper

Few days ago I've encountered a short quote that had nailed something very important IMHO: > "Walt Disney. Steve Jobs. Bill Gates. They were all micromanagers. What is it the the most successful leaders micromanaged? They micromanaged product, they didn't micromanage people." > Jim...

The Iron Law of Oligarchy

Have you heard about The Iron Law of Oligarchy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy] (TILoO)? No? There's no shame, I haven't (until recently) either, but now since I did, I have some remarks hopefully worth sharing. OK, but first - what'...

I find your lack of FAITH disturbing

Btw. I wonder how many people would associate the quote with the character without the title pic these days ;) When it comes to team endeavours (projects, etc.), there are few, critical factors that play major role in succeeding ... or failing: * shared understanding of the goal * aligned priorities & ability to...

Code docs that make sense - part II

1st part of this post can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/code-docs-that-make-sense-part-i/]. Document your API - Swagger Ok, doctest was for Elixir & Python. Many other languages / platforms have similar mechanisms at the various stage of maturity, but things get even better once you focus on documentation of...

Code docs that make sense - part I

I've written many post concerning writing code this way or another. Same applies to writing tests - all kind of tests you can possibly imagine. But there's one kind of software development process output I've been notoriously avoiding: documentation. This topics is bit touchy...

The commits of death: keyboards in blood

Software is similar to exactly nothing we had in this world until it has emerged. Ephemeral, not physical but with constantly growing physical indirect effects on our world. Software development has started as a small, isolated industry (focused on actual computing) but now it's powering up almost every...

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