I think we are all feeling like this these days – taxed, weighted down – trying to do our best, not sure what to start on next because who knows what we are going to have to be working through next. If you’ve never had an Out of Memory exception, it occurs when your code has taken up all the memory on a server and there is nothing left to give back. I haven’t had…
Here are some articles on Software Development Leadership this past year that resonated with people this past year. I’m looking forward to writing more in 2022. What Successful Software Architects Do What Makes a Great Technical Lead 5 Metrics of Software Leadership Team Leads vs Software Managers The Software Manager Minimum
Think back to the last time you had a great meeting, one that truly blew your mind and left you feeling satisfied. Chances are it wasn’t in the last few months. Greater chances are that it was even longer than that. If you knew your meetings for the next week and the week after we’re going to be exactly the same, leave you feeling exactly the same way – would you still attend them? Or…
I often equate the night before a software release akin to Christmas Eve. Everything is just so, all the plans are perfectly in place, the sign-offs are received, the team is ready, on-calls are all set. Now all that’s left is to make it happen. Sometimes it goes off without a hitch, sometimes you forget to wrap something. But it always works out, and it’s one of my favourite days in any release.
Oftentimes this is the scariest answer to hear from a developer when you ask them if they have everything they need. As a Dev Manager, your response should never be – “great” – it should always be – “okay let’s sit down and figure this out.” If the team only knows what they know and yet there are questions about what they don’t know, it means they are not seeing the entire picture and your…