The Engineering Manager

Buzzword bingo Failing fast. A phrase you’ve probably heard countless times in agile literature, in books about start-up and lean culture, and in umpteen articles on the Internet. And yes, here I am: yet another monkey on the proverbial typewriter. Fail early, fail often, fail smart. In the software development world it’s safe to say that we’ve all been bonked on the head with the proverbial fail-stick enough times for it to have been driven […]

Now what? It’s Thursday. You stroll back to your desk from the coffee machine and before taking your seat, you have a stretch and you look around at your colleagues. Life is pretty good, isn’t it? You’re managing a team. People seem to think that you’re doing a great job. Your staff are a talented, happy bunch and you’ve got an interesting project with autonomy to build it in the language and framework of your […]