Essays

Promoting the Head of Engineering from within?

When is the right time to hire a Head of Engineering, and should you promote from within?

My CEO is doing my job

What to do when your CEO decides de take ownership of some of your responsibilities

Dealing with low ambition

What to do when someone in your team is not motivated or ambitious enough

How to get promoted

A guide for engineering managers

The modern enterprise software company

Technology, methodology and customer acquisition approaches of modern enterprise software companies

Seven technology leadership lessons from TV show writing

What if software engineers behaved more like writers than actual engineers? What leadership lessons could we take from the TV writing world?

Why software engineers should become CEOs

Former software engineers make excellent CEOs, but few of them think they could do it

Passion economy opportunities for software engineers

Learn how more and more individuals are making a living off their unique skills and what are the opportunities for software engineers

Teaching

How peer instruction and effortful learning can help move beyond self learning

Build vs buy decisions in the age of software abundance

On why the abundance of software makes build vs buy decisions much more complex, and how to use Wardley Maps to make these decisions