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Engineering Team Roles

Almost all of the engineers I have worked with have played some role in defining the to-do list of a project. Some engineers are more disciplined, some are laxer. Some like granularity others just want the big picture. Ultimately the team has to have a shared approach. …

Product Management

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Team Roles
Team Roles
Product Management

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Feb 16

Using Avro in Ruby

Using Avro in Ruby At Blue Lava, we’re evolving our monolith to be more event driven. We’re not exactly breaking it up, but we are getting a few things outside of it. We had already put events and pub/sub in place using ActiveSupport::Notifictions. We decided to use events in response…

Software Development

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Using Avro in Ruby
Using Avro in Ruby
Software Development

8 min read


Oct 17, 2022

Book Review: Creating Meaningful Change

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHTXYMZD/ Amazon Summary: Technology companies weren’t the first to experience pivots, growth pain, or mismanagement, but they dominate the conversation today. I’ve always worked for technology companies as a software engineer/manager, whereas my father was an automotive engineer/manager. He and I have discussed in length the similarities and differences…

Leadership

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Book Review: Creating Meaningful Change
Book Review: Creating Meaningful Change
Leadership

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Mar 21, 2021

Lead Positions

Lead Positions This may come as a shock, but some engineers don’t want to be promoted. They’re happy being an engineer. They want to focus on code and building, not on leading, or mentoring, or helping define process. I’m speaking from experience. As an engineering manager, I’ve been surprised many times by…

Engineering Mangement

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Lead Positions
Lead Positions
Engineering Mangement

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Published in The Startup

·Feb 23, 2021

Engineering Team Roadmaps

Engineering Team Roadmaps Most roadmaps for engineering teams commit the sin of only including new features and functionality. This does a major disservice to the engineering team. how do you balance engineering wants and needs vs. product demands? how do you get engineers to focus on meeting priorities? should roadmaps include technical investments? …

Software Engineering

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Engineering Team Roadmaps
Engineering Team Roadmaps
Software Engineering

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Published in The Startup

·Feb 12, 2021

Reframing Failed Software Projects

Reframing Failed Software Projects The word failure comes with a negative connotation, but should it? I’ve been grappling with this question the last few weeks. If an attempt isn’t successful, is it therefore a failure? Is there no middle ground? Does failure imply a boolean? A few years ago, I built an app that…

Software Development

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Reframing Failed Software Projects
Reframing Failed Software Projects
Software Development

7 min read


Feb 5, 2021

Should engineering managers be technical?

I spent the better part of two decades as an individual contributor on teams resisting the management career change until I felt I was ready. So, this is a question I can directly relate to. I’ve mentioned this topic before. I’ve seen this come up a lot lately in industry…

Engineering

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Should engineering managers be technical?
Should engineering managers be technical?
Engineering

8 min read


Nov 15, 2020

Book Review — Ego Is The Enemy

Book Review — Ego Is The Enemy I’ll admit I had a lot of enthusiasm going into this book. I’d listened to a number of podcasts where Ryan was interviewed. I was excited to read him as an author. Many of his books look interesting to me. …

Book Review

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Book Review — Ego Is The Enemy
Book Review — Ego Is The Enemy
Book Review

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Oct 20, 2020

The Craft Of Engineering And Leadership

The Craft Of Engineering And Leadership Being in leadership is a craft of its own. I’ve been an informal leader, a Tech Lead on a few teams, an Engineering Manager to quite a few teams, and a Director of Engineering a few times. The roles and responsibilities are different in every company I’ve been a part…

Engineering

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The Craft Of Engineering And Leadership
The Craft Of Engineering And Leadership
Engineering

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Sep 29, 2020

Book Review: Four Patterns of Healthy People

Book Review: Four Patterns Of Healthy People Disclosure: I was asked to review this book and given a free promotional copy from the publisher. Matt Norman has written a concise set of stories and questions focused on four habits that are shown to help people lead healthy lives. The one thing that sticks out to me with…

Book Review

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Book Review: Four Patterns of Healthy People
Book Review: Four Patterns of Healthy People
Book Review

5 min read

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