In my last post I introduced a practical approach to engineering leadership and the skills required in any engineering organisation. The post must have struck a nerve as it got a lot of reads, especially on Medium in The Startup magazine where I cross-post some of my blog posts. However, I’m sure people have many […]
Archives for 2019
A Practical Approach to Engineering Leadership
In my previous post on the new engineering leadership skills needed in a devops world, I called for a more systematic approach to developing leadership capabilities in engineering. But I gave no answers. In this post, I’ll share my practical approach to developing leadership capabilities in an engineering organisation. When developing great software, there are […]
A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App
Flutter is a cross-platform UI framework that quickly gained traction. Back in mid-2018, it was made available as a release preview. Since then it has moved from an immature technology to a fairly robust foundation for building cross-platform apps. The starter app I tinkered with back then to explore the limitations has become a source […]
Wanted: a New Set of Engineering Leadership Skills
A while ago I did a series on how key roles in the engineering organisation changes as a result of introducing devops practices. I covered the software architect, the program manager (at that time I was at Cisco and some of the projects were huge), and the product owner, but left out the engineering manager and […]