No Kill Switch (Page 2)

a month agoin Software Engineering, career development, motivation

Aren't we, developers, bored to death with our work?

Let me start with some observations: the most popular tech meet-up talks are about the most hard-core, niche, infrastructure-level optimisations & techniques - while 97% people in the audience never encounters any practical scenario these apply to (e.g. web…

2 months agoin quality assurance, testing, automated testing

Is there a life without Software Testers?

Late September 2019, I've decided that it's time for a career change, so I've started searching through the job market and talking to various companies in need of a Senior Engineering Leader. It's not that I enjoy the process of…

2 months agoin books, review

My reading summary for 2019 (with recommendations)

Just like in the previous years (... , 2018, 2017, ...), I'd like to re-visit what I've read within the last 12 months & pick the most valuable gems I could recommend to you without blenching. In general I tend to focus primarily…

2 months agoin personal, essentialism

It's RESET time!

I took some time off. The final closure of my previous professional adventure took less time than expected, so I could afford taking a short break to RESET myself before starting a completely new stage in my career. And damn,…

2 months agoin ability to deliver, effectiveness

Dynamics (energy flow) of a work environment

I love diving deep into how/when & why work is getting done. Into the differences between environments of high velocity & insane productivity VS ones where the air seems to have a consistency of a gel, slowing everything down…

3 months agoin engineering culture, software development, lean thinking

Effectiveness VS efficiency: the cultural aspect

The dualism of effectiveness & efficiency (some would even say: the dichotomy (!)) is one of the most favourite topics of all Lean aficionados, Kanbanistas & other Agile-minded peeps (including prophets of Scrum ...). To be frank I've written about it on…