Engineering Management: The Pendulum on the LadderIn January this year Charity Majors wrote Engineering Management: The Pendulum or the Ladder as a follow up to The Engineer/Manager…Mar 25, 2019Mar 25, 2019
Hecate’s First Conference BoothLast month I ran the first conference booth (cough, conference cocktail table) and I just wanted to share a few bits and pieces from the…Jan 1, 2019Jan 1, 2019
Code Review Review is the Manager’s JobIn the classic management book High Output Management Andy Grove argues that “training is the manager’s job” because it’s the highest…Aug 14, 20182Aug 14, 20182
Published inHackerNoon.comHow (and why) Should Managers Code?If you’re writing an all time top five list of controversial engineering management topics, I can almost guarantee that the question of…Jul 3, 20183Jul 3, 20183
Happy 10th Birthday Pull Requests!Happy 10th Birthday Github Pull Requests! Introduced on February 23rd 2008 in their 3rd blog post.Feb 24, 20181Feb 24, 20181
Developers On CallOver the past few days Charity Majors has been at the centre of a wide ranging twitter debate around whether developers should go on call…Feb 11, 20186Feb 11, 20186
Book Review: One StrategyToday I finally finished reading One Strategy: Organisation, Planning, and Decision Making by Steven Sinofsky and Marco Iansiti. I checked…Jan 16, 2018Jan 16, 2018
Three flavours of iterationAs far as I can tell there are roughly three flavours of working style in an “agile” environment that all get named “iterating”.Jan 11, 2018Jan 11, 2018
2017 In ReviewSeems like you can’t swing a cat without hitting someone’s year in review blog post. The world won’t have been screaming out for me to add…Dec 31, 2017Dec 31, 2017