Take two of the production-quality Flutter starter app after nearly seven months of tremendous progress in the Flutter community. The starter app has been updated to the latest Flutter releases, best practices, and improved in many aspects. Update Mar 6, 2020: The first_app is now available in Google Play store and as an iOS beta! […]
The Perfect Engineering Manager
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 […]
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 […]




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