Exuberant EM - Exuberant EM

Exuberant EM

Exuberant EM

On Mental Fitness (Mental Health 2.0)

On Mental Fitness (Mental Health 2.0)

At the end of a long day, I sometimes catch myself doomscrolling through my YouTube recommendations. Most of the time I don’t even watch those. Just scrolling by. Unconsciously searching for something that isn’t there. And once in a while, I stumble upon something peculiar. This time, it

State of Engineering Management 2022 Report

Engineering Management

State of Engineering Management 2022 Report

Coding Sans has released a wonderful report on Engineering Management - State of Engineering Management 2022. Let’s see what caught my eye ;) The Report has five sections: 1. Leadership, Self-improvement 2. Hiring, Retaining, Engineering Brand 3. Remote work 4. People management Leadership, Self-Improvement What are the most important soft

Engineering Manager/Technical Project Manager Books

Engineering Manager/Technical Project Manager Books

From time to time I get requests about what books to read for a novice team lead, engineering manager, PM, etc. - so I just decided to write a post on that matter :) This is an Evergreen post. If you are a novice try to read first 1-3 books in

Notes on Team Topologies Book

Notes on Team Topologies Book

General notes Overall this is a great book, and many other authors and sources recommend it as a must-read for any management role. I will recommend it as well 🙂 This book gives a good structure on how to think and design your teams. But… it could be like 3x times

Project Forecasting Using Monte Carlo Method

Project Forecasting Using Monte Carlo Method

The first article in this series is here (Notes on Kanban Metrics) Traditional approach to forecasting project completion dates What is a traditional way to forecast project completion date? We take: * Average velocity per Iteration/Period (e.g. Story Points per Sprint, Number of Done stories per Week, etc.) * Backlog

SkyNet is (almost) here. OpenAIs developer AI - Codex

SkyNet is (almost) here. OpenAIs developer AI - Codex

What is it? It is truly amazing and jawbreaking stuff! OpenAI Codex is an AI system capable of transforming plain English text to real code in several languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP, Perl, Ruby; but Python preferably). It is powering GitHub Copilot - Visual Studio Code extension that serves

Notes On Kanban Metrics (Lead time, Cycle time, Throughput)

Notes On Kanban Metrics (Lead time, Cycle time, Throughput)

Disclaimer: in this article we are talking about Kanban Method, described by David J. Anderson and not traditional manufacturing Kanban. Second article in this series is here - Project Forecasting. Kanban metrics Key kanban metrics that we will discuss in this article: * Lead time * Cycle time * Throughput There are other

Short Tips on Creating and Managing Remote Software Development Team

Short Tips on Creating and Managing Remote Software Development Team

We will skip the part about why do you do it (remote teams) and get straight to the point. Below are some short tips (derived from my experience, you can agree or disagree with it — it’s OK, this is strictly my opinion) to keep in mind when you are