16
Oct
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...
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Tech needs better leaders
15
Oct
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...
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11
Oct
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 with...
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08
Oct
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...
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06
Oct
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...
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04
Oct
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 list of...
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28
Sep
Cheap - Fast - Good Conventional internet wisdom tells us we should pick two. It's often visualised in one of these Venn diagrams: The thing with conventional internet wisdom is...
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27
Sep
Sometimes it can feel that discussions about Agile and Lean are purely academic. Most of those articles are the business equivalent of those motivational TED Talks. But sometimes, you watch...
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24
Sep
A team is a network of individuals working towards a common goal. There's a lot of literature about the teams and the networks and the goals, but I would like...
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18
Sep
Yin vs Yang, Cats vs Dogs, Recruiters vs Developers. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Developers are in high demand and...
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