Last night, while awake in bed, I got to thinking – why is it that while most software professionals I meet agree that Agile is the best way to create software, most businesses remain unconvinced?…
Have you ever been told something that when you heard it you felt like you already knew it, but you didn’t know you knew it? For me, that happened recently while watching a lecture on…
Throughout my career one of the biggest sources of tension between the development and management teams has always been estimation. “How long will it take to implement feature X?” asks a roving manager, unexpectedly disturbing…
Yes, yes, I know. I’m a bit late to the party. Over the last few months every tech blogger and their internet-savvy gran has written a post on working from home. The Covid-19 situation has…
A little while ago I came across this post on stack overflow asking about experience ‘levels’ in software development – https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/158329/how-exactly-experience-level-is-determined-in-software-industry The asker was looking to apply to a company advertising multiple software developer jobs…
Imposter syndrome is a strange thing. It makes talented, competent professionals believe that they can’t do their job, that their hiring was somehow a mistake, and that they’re about to be exposed and fired. Imposter…
One of the most important (if not the most loved) parts of being a professional software developer is the code review. While not always a popular task, the code review has benefits to the person…
At the beginning of my career, the idea of presenting anything to a group, no matter how small would terrify me. While I had full confidence in my technical skills, standing at the front of…
Writing software documentation is probably about the most unpopular tasks for software developers. It’s time consuming and draining and worse, instead of compiling and seeing something cool happen on screen, you press save and nothing…
In the first part of this post I covered the sort of preparation you can do before each interview. If you’ve read it and followed the advice you’re already going to be better prepared than…