There is a lot of guidance out there about everything you need to be doing as a remote leader. And a good portion of that is good. The game has changed and managing people remotely is a very different endeavour from managing them when you see them day in and…

It sounds overtly simplistic and basic — Good, that’s the Idea. As you start to write code in a group, on a particular project, with a company, even if you are all by yourself on your own projects — you eventually fall into the trap of complacency in what you…

At some point in your career, you are going to run into a software release that is either teetering on the brink or has gone completely off the rails. Not everyone will know there is something wrong, but you will, it will be gnawing at you in each and every…

As your software team grows, you’ll find the need for project management to help in your releases. Whether it’s someone on your team that assumes the role or an individual that handles all facets of it, a great project manager can be a lifeline to a small team that is…

Every fantastic line of code you write has the potential to become an even more amazing bug — whether you report it or not, it’s there, lurking behind the scenes, but there. As a Software Manager, it’s just not enough to look triage, monitor, and report on bugs (all very…

When we take on the role of leadership — whether it’s in a formal (manager) or informal (lead, senior) capacity— no one starts off wanting to be a bad leader. But it can end up that way where at some point we take a step back and realize that we…

In their infancy, software teams are fragile organisms trying to create an immense about of value (software) while trying to learn what they are actually doing (coding). They come together, work hard, support each other, and slowly but surely that fragility turns into a strong base on which the team's…

I don’t code nearly as much as I used to. I get some coding in weekly, but I find I do more design, code configuration, leadership, and platform work now as apart from straight-up pure coding where I used to hammer on keys at all hours of the day until…

If you’re going to go through all the effort of having a Daily Standup, you better make it worth everyone’s time. You will never find the perfect time in the day to hold a standup, someone will already have been up for a few hours and in the zone, someone…