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by ochronus 3y ago
It's a bit more than a simple yes or no. There was a longish study about the topic: https://leadership.garden/back-to-the-office/
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by ochronus 3y ago
Shameless plug: https://leadership.garden/the-5-common-mistakes-of-new-engin...
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by ochronus 3y ago
ChatGPT says hello: Yes, this text is encrypted using a simple Caesar cipher, specifically ROT13. The ROT13 ("rotate by 13 places") is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it in the
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by ochronus 3y ago
The author totally missed the potential title of "The tutorial to end all tutorials" :)
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by ochronus 3y ago
A HUGE plus one to the last point - making social connections is usually even harder / not cared for than subject matter onboarding.
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by ochronus 3y ago
Shameless plug: https://leadership.garden/onboarding-engineers/
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by ochronus 3y ago
It's a suitable approach in the local context (tickets/tasks for the team), but won't work on the project level and with stakeholders. Stakeholders eventually will want a timeframe.
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by ochronus 3y ago
I've seen 3 major uses for estimations (besides the obvious forcing function to align on complexity/ideas among the team members): 1. Somebody really needs a time-based estimate for the project, e.g. the customer wants feature X b
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by ochronus 3y ago
True that. It's inconvenient, but you can use custom fields (e.g. in JIRA) for this, but I agree, it's not a proper solution as it doesn't display e.g. ranges :/
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by ochronus 3y ago
One thing I found crucial when dealing with estimation is to always, always explicitly add the level of confidence (in the estimate). This saves so many tough discussions later... either have it built in to your product development process
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by ochronus 4y ago
So true! See also: sunk-cost fallacy
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by ochronus 4y ago
There's a big divide in (tech) management based on how managers see their roles. On one end of the spectrum are folks who feel their only job is to make things happen, pronto. This is what gets you rewards, pats on the back, promotions
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by ochronus 4y ago
For inspiration: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashic...
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by ochronus 4y ago
On a related note, I've written about how to tackle tech debt - dedicated capacity/time is just one approach. https://leadership.garden/tips-on-prioritizing-tech-debt/
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by ochronus 4y ago
Does your manager know how you feel about your sessions? :) Some ideas completely without context: - make it less frequent - make it about you! (that's the original reason for 1:1s anyway) - pitch your ideas - what are parts of your li
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by ochronus 4y ago
https://leadership.garden/ My (engineering) leadership blog. Currently, running on Ghost.
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Leadership Lessons from the Fields: Advice from Farmers(leadership.garden)
1 points by ochronus 4y ago|0 comments
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by ochronus 4y ago
How about lowering targets and re-planning with the new, lower headcount? ;)
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How to Start Managing People – The First 3 One-on-Ones(leadership.garden)
1 points by ochronus 4y ago|0 comments
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The First 3 One-on-Ones(leadership.garden)
2 points by ochronus 4y ago|1 comments
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by ochronus 4y ago
Get the one-on-one advice you need to get started as an engineering manager: three tangible lists of ideas of what to talk about in your first few one-on-ones.
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by ochronus 4y ago
I think neither extreme is right. Tech debt can be a deliberate tradeoff decision. I also understand that in reality, unless managed, tech debt is rarely considered by non-tech people. I've written about how to reason about technical d
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by ochronus 4y ago
yes please!
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by ochronus 4y ago
Most probably no. For a really, really exciting product, I'd consider.
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by ochronus 4y ago
Macbook Air M1 (personal) Macbook Pro M1 (work)
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by ochronus 4y ago
On the same server, my Ghost instance manages it. I have Cloudflare before it all. I wish I'd get to outgrow this setup
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by ochronus 4y ago
RPC is cool again! CORBA FTW ;)
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by ochronus 4y ago
Fastmail, I've been using them for many years now. One of my favorite features is having catch-all email addresses, like whateveryouwant@domain.tld - you can get mails to your inbox for any address in your domain. Also, you can have mu
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by ochronus 4y ago
As a hiring manager, I have the same gut sense when I see such a post. It's either just unfortunate wording or the employer very honestly telling the candidates what to expect. I understand where it is coming from – but I can't he
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by ochronus 4y ago
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