Handling Competitive Dynamics
A healthy level of competition can fuel innovation and push people to do their best work. It turns problematic when it starts overshadowing the team. I don’t think competition i...
Archive January 2024
Posts published in January 2024.
A Weekend Getaway to Malta
Last weekend, I swapped the cold Dublin for the Mediterranean sun with a trip to Malta. My journey started on Friday evening. I left Dublin at 7 pm and, after a few hours in the...
Engineering Health Essentials
Engineering health is a term that deserves far more attention than it receives. Sustainable software development is not only about the features we ship or the speed at which we...
Should Dev Managers Code?
I often think about what it really means to be a good development manager. It's a bit like being the conductor of an orchestra. You don’t have to know how to play every single i...
Confronting the Life on Pause
During the COVID lockdowns, I ended up spending more time alone than I was used to. The routines had collapsed, and a lot of the social structure I had taken for granted just di...