We spend plenty of time as engineers either being onboarded into a new organisation / project or helping onboard others. The best onboarding experiences I've had have been low-stress, with a clear pat…

I repeatedly encounter ongoing software projects that are far behind industry best practice and as a result are getting the inevitable problems in quality, delays, waste etc. When I talk to the projec…

Love Jira. The main method of ensuring the team builds the right thing at the right time is a quality & well ordered backlog. The team owns the stories and tickets. The tickets are just a tool fo…

Learn to code... then get endlessly better at coding... Be good at coding. The end. ... but wait, there's more. There is truly endless training available for getting better at the craft of being a d…

Here's my take on what it means to be a dev-lead / tech-lead / lead developer; and why it's time I stepped up. I'm going to explain what I think makes for a really good high-functioning dev team, and …

This is for my children when they're old enough to read them and benefit from them, and when they decide to take an interest in the advice of their boring old man, however I'd recommend this list to a…