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How to provide ballpark estimates without trapping your team into unrealistic deadlines
Few things fill an engineering team with trepidation more than a request for a “ballpark estimate”. Continue reading on The Engineering Manager Guide »
Jan 3, 2023
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Hasitha Liyanage
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March 2022
How to help your team deliver continuously
“Continuous delivery” (or more popularly, continuous integration and delivery, or CI/CD) reached buzzword status somewhere between 2015… Continue…
Mar 27, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to speak to a low-performing engineer
Having to deal with a low performer who is not responding to positive reinforcement can bring out some of the worst instincts in a manager… Continue…
Mar 15, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to avoid unnecessarily failing a coding/design interview
It can happen to the best of us: with minutes to understand something they would normally ponder about for hours in real life, and an… Continue reading…
Mar 6, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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February 2022
How to help your team deliver architectural changes incrementally
Agile methodologies suggest that software be developed and delivered in small, non-breaking increments. This generally involves slicing a… Continue…
Feb 24, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to become an engineering manager
As it is with many things in software engineering, there are different schools of thought about what an engineering manager should be… Continue reading…
Feb 20, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to know if you’re a leader or a manager
Leadership is often confused with management. Here’s a checklist to tell which one you are: Continue reading on The Engineering Manager Guide »
Feb 5, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to bring bad news to your manager
It is the nature of business that things do not always go as planned. Continue reading on The Engineering Manager Guide »
Feb 5, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to conduct one-on-one meetings as an engineering manager
Unless you have had formal training in people management (which many engineering managers don’t), the need for regular one-on-one meetings… Continue…
Feb 5, 2022
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Hasitha Liyanage
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How to keep your team from getting Agile wrong
Twenty years ago, a group of highly experienced software developers, including as Martin Fowler (now known for microservices), Ron… Continue reading on…
Feb 5, 2022
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