Living in times of pandemic has a lot of cascading side effects. Keeping the social distance has reduced the number of social interactions within professional communities by a level of magnitude. Some fellows I've used to socialize with every few weeks, I see now twice, thrice a year. This unexpected...
I've read a good book about technical leadership and seniority in engineering recently - "Staff Engineer" [https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineer-Leadership-beyond-management-ebook/dp/B08RMSHYGG/] by Will Larson [https://twitter.com/Lethain]. I've already reviewed it here [https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3870963321] (feel free to check it), so today I'd...
> (no, this is NOT a blog post about football) Yesterday, Legia - currently the best football team in Poland (no, I'm not their fan, so I have no emotional attachment towards them) has dropped of the Champions League (CL) qualifications in the 2nd elimination phase (of 4). That happens consistently...
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 to crawl ... There are several factors that have various levels of impact...
I'm sure you know how deadlines work: 1. collect the requirements/expectations & grok through them (understand them) 2. estimate the effort needed to deliver the outcome, quantify risks, "guesstimate" unknown unknowns, ... 3. ... and "collide" what you've got with current commitments & team availability (to assemble a rough allocation plan) 4. the...
> TL;DR Many engineering organizations postpone their most ambitious plans due to cost constraints for so long that they start to believe that it's only money that limits their capabilities. When they eventually get funds, they learn (in a painful way) that scaling up in an efficient manner is not...
