I have an idea that keeps haunting me now and then. To take a break from my current role (a leader of 60+ engineering unit) & go for a temporal (1 month?) contract assignment as an individual contributor - front-line software engineer. What has inspired such an idea? No, it&...
> This blog post is all about: why engineering leadership is both - engineering and leadership, why both strategic & tactical perspectives HAVE to be mixed (and what happens when they are not). This is one of THESE posts. No solutions, no conclusions, pure rant ... WAIT, wrong attitude. Not "...
Tym razem nietypowo, bo po polsku. Ale również w nietypowej sprawie i poza "standardowym" cyklem publikacji - otóż dzisiejszy blog post to ... ogłoszenie - z kategorii "praca szuka człowieka". Nie będzie to pierwszy raz - zdarzało już mi się publikować info o rekrutacji w tej formie...
There's bunch of questions that will probably never get answered ... 1. who was behind killing JFK? 2. is Elvis alive? 3. why did your local football team suck that much in the yesterday game? 4. ... and ... what's the optimal work model for running software teams? ;P...
> 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 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...
