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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…
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Hasitha Liyanage
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…
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Hasitha Liyanage
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…
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Hasitha Liyanage

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.
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Hasitha Liyanage
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…
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Hasitha Liyanage
How to know if you’re a leader or a manager
Leadership is often confused with management.
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Hasitha Liyanage
How to bring bad news to your manager
It is the nature of business that things do not always go as planned.
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Hasitha Liyanage
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…
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Hasitha Liyanage
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