I came across this article last week on StackOverflow – The Great Resignation as it applies to Software Developers. It’s a pretty good read – unfortunately, it’s nothing new – all of these elements of being a software developer existed before – all the Pandemic has done has made them visible (more so before). Burnout is not new, the term might have even been invented by Software Developers. The section on “Challenges for Managers and…
I spent a number of hours on the phone, email, and chat with a company I’ve worked with for years trying to get a simple answer to a basic question. I even had my account representative call me out of the blue and tell me they are here for me if I need any help. I did need help, but they didn’t look at my account to see there was an open case. I updated…
We are still remote. We are still leading our teams remotely. And as much as we would like to accept that this is how things are, we can keep doing the little things that made us better in the first place and got us over those earlier humps. We just need to work at it. Whether it’s a new team or an existing one, some good Icebreakers to get things started; What was your win…
The beauty of working on performance problems is that they are the simplest to measure – code still does what it was supposed to do before AND goes faster. WIN! The problem is, we always do this after the fact, after the customer reported it, after we deployed it to QA and it blew up. After everything went wrong. We don’t do it before. And that’s where we need to start bundling the work into…
Stagehands get the stage ready between takes, they close curtains, cue fog machines, turn on lights – all that great stuff that no one sees happening but is infinitely critical to the success of a play. These people exist in your team and company, but they are harder to see when you are remote because now they are not walking past you to do your job or being “cued” in, they are simply doing it,…