The Engineering Manager

Expansion: the aftermath The company did brilliantly two years ago. But now they’re saying you’re slow. Last year you managed to open up nearly 40 headcount in Engineering and you managed to fill those roles with talented people, almost doubling the size of the department. Yet, another year on from there, others in the business are left wondering what effect that had. Shouldn’t have you been able to dramatically ship more software with all of […]

Work harder! Work faster! Has anyone ever asked that of you and your team? How did it make you feel? Did it motivate or demotivate? Cause inspiration or decline? Software engineering, like many other forms of technological and scientific work, can be opaque in technique to those that are not skilled in it. Unlike watching a stonemason carve a statue, it can be difficult to observe how work is progressing. Just what exactly are all […]