The machine has strong opinions
I've worked in plenty of large enterprisy organisations and one of the most painful recurring themes is employee detachment. We don't talk about it that often, but in an industry…
Why full-time work is not designed for you
Nobody is productive for 8 hours straight and that goes double for creatives. No one can write great code consistently from 9 to 5, day-in-day-out. It's not folding boxes at…
How to deal with Idea People
If you spend some time on start-up boards or networking events, you'll run into them. Developers can spot them from the other side of the room and try to stay…
What makes a senior developer?
If there is one creature that has an almost mythical aura in the corporate world, it's the senior developer. Wise, battle-hardened and elusive, they are in high demand. I've worked…
Forget OKR’s, look at your NYR’s
People want to grow. Teams want to improve. Companies want to do better. We'll define metrics and aim to grow those. We'll write down ambitious goals that should act as…
How to land your next dev job
I sometimes get questions through LinkedIn from developers looking to land a new job. Sometimes these people are junior-juniors looking for their first project. In other cases, they have some…
Cutting scope is the healthy option
Scrum teams and their JIRA Backlog. Analysts and their Functional Requirements. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Yet we tackle software development by spelling out a…