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I try to approach most interactions with my teammates as a mentoring opportunity. Sometimes this means simple stuff like showing them a command-line trick or a design pattern. It can … Continue Reading Mentoring With Personality In Mind
Most of the companies I’ve worked for in the last 5 years have used the OKR system. Although this system was invented in the 70s, it has more recently become … Continue Reading OKRs from a development team’s perspective
Writing code is often the best way to figure out what exactly needs to be done to solve a problem. In the Agile world, they call this a Spike. A spike … Continue Reading Moving forward after a Code Spike
This is an installment in the What Biz People Need to Know About Tech series. It’s aim is to help non-technical business people to communicate better with engineers and provide better feedback about the value they want … Continue Reading What Biz People Need to Know About Tech: Single Page Apps
It looks like Rails 6 is going to include first class support for configuring your app to talk to multiple databases. I’m not going to get too deep into how … Continue Reading In Praise of Multiple DB setups and Rails 6
This series of posts is for business people who work on projects that involve software development. The goal is to help those business people to better understand the work their … Continue Reading What Biz People Need to Know About Tech: Series Intro