Weekly Readings on Software Engineering & Technical Leadership.
Welcome to CTO Insights #12!
This week’s favorites - Choosing the management track, there is no coding anymore!
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Nima Dini and Dan Sully put together a story on how they handled compatibility testing with their 12,000 Multirepo codebases.
If you are using a Multirepo source control model with stable versioned dependencies, check out all of the challenges and strategies they presented and see if they can help you better scale up your compatibility testing while keeping your developers productive!
Great story on leadership at thought times! Medi Madelen Gwosdz and Ben Popper talk about how to lead with Clarity and Empathy in the Remote World.
Don’t work late—or at least hide offline!”
If your team sees you, they’ll feel they should work late too—even if that’s not your intention. So think hard about how others will interpret your actions.
A few days ago I learned about Claire Lew and her story behind Know Your Team.
This is one of the best stories on building Team Morale remotely. I actually love the entire blog as it talks on how to become a better leader, AND avoid being a bad boss :)
A super insightful story on how the future of work might look like. The author talks highly about Remote Work and he shares some facts about why work from anywhere will be the new relaility.
Millennials were excited by the idea of traveling the world while still employed.
As we grow throughout our career, we always wonder what the next step would be and how it’d look like.
Leading Engineering Teams is not an easy thing, as it involves way more than coding. Read more about all of the challenges you’d run into if/when you choose the management track.
One of the most challenging parts of the work is getting your team to commit to a specific schedule on completing a certain task.
One of my colleagues Alex Pavlov wrote super cool article on what we shouldn’t do when providing estimations. Check it out and share it with your team on how estimations shouldn’t be approached.
