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Too many senior devs

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:26 January 2020
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

A customer I once worked for took pride in a simple yet baffling policy: "We only hire senior developers" Their line of reasoning was that they could afford to pay…

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New year, old stack

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:12 January 2020
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Attracting software developers remains a hot topic. There is no easy solution and in some cases, it can really block the growth of your organisation. I was talking with a…

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Your Kanban board is a waterfall

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:30 December 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

The Kanban board has become the staple of progress tracking in software development. There's a "To Do" column, various stages of "In progress" and finally a "Done" list. We think…

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Minimum viable team

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:23 December 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Management worships scaling. More is better. Large teams can churn out more features faster. Strong managers shine in huge hierarchies. Sure, it can be a bit wasteful, but if you…

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Office politics for techies

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:18 December 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Techies seem to really dislike backchanneling and dealmaking. Mention office politics and the clichés show up. Gossiping and he-said-she-said. Inept managers are promoted. Great solutions are dismissed in favour of…

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Pragmatic Software Development

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:29 November 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Software developers constantly make trade-offs. Picking an opinionated framework speeds up delivery, but makes it harder to build non-conventional features. Larger payloads vs multiple requests. Does this project benefit from…

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Never-ending User Story

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:27 November 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

How many stories are in your team's backlog? How many items are on the To-Do list? Count them. If you're like most other teams, the answer is: way too many.…

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All aboard the Agile shuttle bus

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:13 November 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

You are a developer in a bank and like most of your colleagues, you struggle with your commute. Management has heard the call and has come up with a solution.…

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Software development is a creative job

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:11 November 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

Software development is a creative job. It's not a pleasant truth to most business people, who'd like more predictability. It doesn't fit in the worldview of most project managers, who'd…

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Project Reporter

  • Post author:Mike
  • Post published:2 November 2019
  • Post category:Tech needs better leaders

In once joined a team as a project manager and one of the first things I noticed was the lack of testers. Every team member was a developer and while…

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