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the blind side of seniority
…on their individual strengths to build unbeatable teams. Because of that, I have always looked at building teams as finding the right mix of strengths and weaknesses. I suppose we could get esoteric… [more]
What Makes a Senior Engineer Senior, and How Do You Build a Great Team?
…I started keeping character sheets for the people on my team. Not performance reviews. Nothing that went into a system anywhere. Just a running doc, a page per person, describing what each of them… [more]
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
…how their work fits into the bigger picture across teams, codebases, and the product. Can zoom from the 1000-mile view down to a single block of code. Architects for broad requirements, not just the… [more]
the megaphone
…the conversation or ideas. You have smart people on your team. Chances are strong they will mention the same things you would. If they do, having them come from a peer allows for better push back,… [more]
Team! A Module For Teams!
…so I wrote a simple module for managing engineering team member information in automation projects. Basically I was working on some automation between Slack, OpsGenie, and JIRA to simplify the on call… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…in bankruptcy which puts me out of work. I had a fantastic team, and was with them to the end. It was a wild ride and now it's time to find the next adventure. Why should you talk to me? I have a… [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…the intro... nothing to see here... moving along. Too many team leads are just thrown into leadership without the support the need. And they need a lot of support as they step into that role. I… [more]
Last Lectures
…just had one for a truly extraordinary engineer on my team today I thought it would be worth writing about them a little bit more. A book that was really impactful for me when I read it for the first… [more]
What Makes a Team Lead Great?
…basically a story designed to prove that small independent teams beat large top down teams every time. Card might disagree with me about this, but you have Ender using independently managed small… [more]
About A Bike Race
…21 corners left in the mad crush of riders You breathe. Teams start to move through the scrum Pushing towards the front as they charge toward the sprint. Wheels touch! Shouts and screams The dull thud… [more]
Lessons Learned From a Film Producer About Making Software
This last week, I had my leadership team in town for the first time in a while for some planning meetings, and some team building. I am always looking to learn from different disciplines, so I thought… [more]
Today is going to be a great day, and other mindset shifts
…techniques to break out of solving problems to coaching team members through problems. This is a hard mental shift for individual contributors in their first management lead in particular. But such an… [more]
Cultural Homogeneity
…all take a look around, and see what aspects of our team's, or our own, or our family's, or our friend's, culture is closed off. What parts make us look at someone else and discount their… [more]
Organizational Design Democracy And Ownership
…of a spectrum. And that when you are hiring, or building a team, you should look at what level of bureaucracy you have and match your candidates to it. Don't sugar coat it. Don't make things… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…end. Things I am taking away from this include: Interview teams need to be extremely empathetic Interview teams must be aware of this bias Teams that work together need to be aware of this, especially… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
I've managed teams named, among other things, Python-Brug, and Banpo. Named for bridges in different cities, while we worked on a product named Bridge. A lot of people look at those names and… [more]
Some thoughts inspired by "Toward peer review as a group engagement"
…right now. Something worth thinking about. Incentivize teams not individuals This one is pretty clear. Measure and incentivize teams not individuals to prevent the crowding out of other work, but also… [more]
Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022
…I am looking for more people to join our rapidly expanding team. Check out the jobs, and more information about our team below! Open Jobs Team Lead We're looking for people centered leaders who… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…been acquired I am working to stabilize and grow the team and get them on solid footing inside a new, much larger company. Still a lot to learn there. One thing that did come through as important… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
…and I use them every day while leading engineering teams. The first lesson is that we should encourage people to take risks. Encourage them to go big, to step into something that they aren’t… [more]
2020: A year
…a little over 4 years, had grown from a Sr. Engineer to a Team Lead and then an Engineering Manger running 4 teams on 2 continents. I'd helped launch a new product on a deadline, exercised my… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…Candor by Kim Scott If you want to get better at being a team member or team leader read this one. Excellent book. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…will be even more valuable if you can do it with a team. Because... Problem #2: You likely haven’t worked on a team to ship a project Working on teams is different then working on your own. Shipping… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…these code style arguments, when they happen across teams, are just a waste of time. The only real metric that matters is whether the code works, ships, and can be maintained. Languages shift, code… [more]
estimations and theory building
My team lead at Instructure , Dan Dorman passed this fantastic article from 1985 by Peter Naur around the team a few days ago. It’s entitled Programming as Theory Building and discusses the idea… [more]
2015: in review
…in 2015. I started the year working as a Front End Stack team (core team) member for the LDS Church and finished it as a Senior Front End Engineer for Instructure. During that time I re-wrote… [more]
The late summer snow crunched gently underfoot as…
The late summer snow crunched gently underfoot as I walked slowly forward. The smoke ahead turned to steam. They were leaving. [more]
Learning the Trade
…of a Large JavaScript Application by The Netflix UI team. Basically all the videos they put out are worth watching. The Better Parts by Douglas Crockford Crockford on JavaScript is a playlist of the… [more]
On To New Horizons
…first on education projects then on the core stack team. I’ve learned an immense amount, written some cool code, worked with some great people, and pushed for a developer/design centric culture… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
…it an essential attribute for all members of a successful team. This is why all-star teams in sports often struggle. This is why rockstar developers often leave, and why Jens Voigt continues to… [more]
There is a Right Way
…tackle. Constraints should drive the choice of technology, team structure, and process. There is a saying that when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, that has to be avoided for designs… [more]
Trust and the Box
…person in the room, understands that each member of the team is a specialist in their specific area. They know exactly what is going on, and what needs to be done to accomplish the end goal. He has… [more]