As part of my series on trade-offs in software development, I want to discuss what might impact how much and what internal documentation a team should write. As with any piece of this series, many...

There is so much good writing about best practices in software development. There are articles telling you about the virtues of test-driven development, refactoring, different types of documentatio...

Over at simplermachines.com Nat Bennett published an excellent draft article on what management at Pivotal was like. Every choice comes down to trade-offs. As Nat pointed out, these practices origi...

In this post I will be going over basic communication practices for new managers. Embracing these practices will help to Make your point Avoid creating a unsafe work environment Avoid upsett...

During the first half of my career I mostly worked on SaaS products. When I started working on a on-prem system with many large enterprise customers, I quickly learned a few important differences t...

TL;DR Many companies still follow policies from a pre-remote world Remote labor will be it’s own market The remote labor market will set a new floor in many locations Roles that must be in...

Hacker News recently had a discussion of a fairly popular Tweet on the meaning of SemVer. Absolutely. The thing about semver major version numbers are that they don't mean new stuff, they'...

I read this book about five years ago, but realized that I remembered very little of it other than that I had enjoyed it and found it quite insightful. Since I recently have been listening to quite...