A reader asks a question that comes up at some point in every engineer's and engineering manager's career, where their manager, or the one above will pop the question. Can you measure engineering productivity? And if so, how can we »
The Cheetah is a software engineer who is first and foremost very curious and blazing fast. The two are connected. They approach everything with an "interesting, let me look into it" type of mindset. And as learning and understanding is »
I wish the book Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager (ebook) existed when I moved from development to management. I was one of the luckier ones: I had a formal apprentice management program with plenty of training, access to senior »
Software is rarely designed in isolation. It doesn't happen by one person going away in their corner for some time, then coming back with a thoroughly thought-out map of what to build and how. And as they explain the approach, »