The Engineering Manager

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been taking some time to step back and think about what I’ve seen, felt, and learnt this year so I can share it with you. 2024 has been a wild ride. Not since the smartphone boom period in 2007 have I seen so much change happening so quickly. We’ve seen the culture and growth of our companies changing due to the macroeconomic climate, a proliferation of LLM-based tools and technologies, and, […]

The bane of every software engineer’s life is dates. And I’m not talking about date types in programming languages, nor am I talking about programming with timezones. I’m talking about the biggest thing that we continually, despite our best intentions, shoot ourselves in the foot with: just when exactly is that project going to be done? Let’s face it: estimates are incredibly hard to make. Sometimes they are closer to fiction than they are to fact. Now, companies want […]