A blog about software development and team leadership #StandWithUkraine💙💛

Artificial teammates

3/13/2024

What to do if you are the only real person in a team of 7 developers? With the growth of AI, the introduction of AGI, and new improvements to LLM…
Comfort and fun in software development

3/5/2024

People talk about software metrics, agile, k8s, clean code, JavaScript, Linux, and others. However, not a lot of people talk about fun in software development. Even fewer people talk about…
The Power of CFD

2/15/2024

As we discussed in Software metrics – there are bad and good metrics. There are also a lot of graphics/visuals one can use to check the system’s state. While talking…
Feedback process for leaders

12/19/2023

People are very complex systems. They have a lot of sub-systems and a lot of mechanisms to control them. Let’s take a look at thermal regulation. The higher the temperature,…
Software metrics

9/27/2023

Many people in software development have used different metrics to measure their or their teams’ productivity and quality for decades. Some people believe you cannot measure software development progress, and…
Making hiring decisions

9/17/2023

Decide whom do you need If you are looking for a long-term working relationship – you need a learner. Okay. Let me explain. If you are looking for a long-term…
How to release to the production often?

7/29/2023

What does “often release to production” means for you? Many would reply – each sprint. Some could answer – each week. A few would say – each day. My reply…
Build rails, not guards

6/25/2023

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr. Quality checks are important as they ensure quality. Code style, compilation, unit tests, etc., are…
Making decisions

6/13/2023

We make decisions every day. We make them multiple times per day. What to eat? What to wear? What task to start first – task 1 or task 2? How…
Freedom in software development

4/30/2023

Not all of us are Sir William Wallace. It’s also good that we shouldn’t be the ones in the corporate world, should we? Freedom is something that you don’t feel…