On Teams & Leadership
I wrote up some thoughts on LeadDev about choosing between a career path as an IC vs. going into engineering management that I wish I’d had when I was a senior dev wondering about next steps.
I was quoted in WorkLife. People are claiming there’s a developer shortage, but I argue that there are thousands of developers ready to work if companies would set up team structures that supported...
Taking real, fully disconnected time off is good for your health and for your team. But you have to ACTUALLY disconnect to get the benefits. I wrote a new post: Checking Slack and email during vaca...
Are we punishing our top performers? Posted on LeadDev I wrote an article about treating high performers on our team better, not burning people out, and building stronger teams instead of creating ...
It feels a little odd to hear people say they're spending more time in meetings with their team, yet feeling less connected. Why isn’t the extra time improving team connection? What’s going wrong? ...