TechEmpower CTO
AUGUST 21, 2023
Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear.
NeverFriday
JUNE 18, 2013
Some notes from the Effective Technical Leadership talk given by David Byttow. Attributes of an effective technical lead. Review code in detail and provide useful feedback. Knowledge: “A strong tech lead’s knowledge is broad and deep…A tech lead should be a master of several technologies.”
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Strategic Tech
MARCH 16, 2021
There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.
CircleCI
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Every technical team in the software industry is familiar with technical debt. That is because every software team incurs technical debt along the way. This article answers some critical questions about technical debt. The larger the project is, the more technical debt the team takes on.
d2iq
JANUARY 5, 2023
DevSecOps–short for development, security, and operations–is a trending practice that introduces security testing, triage, and risk mitigation as early as possible in the software development lifecycle, rather than bolting on security in the final stages. This was manageable when software updates were released every few months or even years.
Apiumhub
JUNE 16, 2021
The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Mantle and Ron Lichty propose to make programmers and software teams manageable.
CircleCI
APRIL 29, 2020
It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. But ultimately, the control I had over my domain was limited due to organizational issues – which led me to leave the company.
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