fundamentals
At work it can often feel like you need to hurry up and crank out the current piece of work. And so you think, maybe I'll just cut corners a bit. I'll just skip writing those tests. Or I'll just skip refactoring the code
engineering-management
Reviewing your team's code review is an often under-leveraged tool you can reach for as an engineering manager in order to improve the efficacy of your teams' code reviews. (That and instituting a code review playbook, but I'm assuming you've done that.) Don&
pull-requests
9 ways to get pull request reviews wrong, and how to fix them.
engineering-management
Supplementing stream aligned teams while sidestepping classic engineering management blunders.
fundamentals
If you don't have fundamentals that you can describe, practice, and measure, how do you know if you're getting better?
engineering-management
Recently I was asking some software engineering leaders about what they do for training for members of their team or organization. The answers wouldn't surprise most engineering leaders. Aside from many stating that their organizations don't offer any training, most called out the standard fare of
programming
A bit hyperbolic, but aside from pairing, it seems to me that there is still no alternative to a pull request review.