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January 30, 2014. I was born to be a nerd. My dad was an engineer and pilot in the RAF. We come from a long line of engineers, all the way back to Napier, the dude that figured out logarithms. As a kid I wanted to learn everything about everything. I read every book I could lay my hands on, and I took things apart to see how they worked, notably, an alarm clock that never went back together right. (Why is there always a spring left over? I said yes, and that was my first tech job. I went from there to an...
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Postmortem: an unfortunate name for a useful process. November 20, 2012. Let’s face it, unless your development process or self-control has utterly failed, nobody died. Don’t just run postmortems for projects that have failed or otherwise been problematic. Run them for the successful projects as well. It’s important to capture what the team did that went well and made the project succeed. Make a postmortem part of your normal process: the bookend to a kickoff meeting. Set the scope of what you’re talking...
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The dark craft of engineering management | tech ramblings
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The dark craft of engineering management. August 7, 2012. And I had a chat about what it means to be an engineering manager, as a follow up to her excellent talk. On the subject at Open Source Bridge. I promised her I would put my (lengthy, rambling) thoughts into an essay of sorts, so here it is. 8220;Management is the art of getting things done through people.”. This is a nice pithy quote, but I prefer my version:. 8220;Management is the craft of enabling people to get things done.”. Mastery has all ki...
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Career and executive coaching. Pricing and billing policies. VM (aka Vicky) is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products and p Hbusinesses. In her almost 15 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager and director of software engineering. Currently she is splitting her time between shoeless consulting. And writing a book translating business concepts into geek speak. VM blogs at {a= h}. And tweets at @vmbrasseur.
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I correct your grammar in my head when you speak. I correct your grammar in my head when you speak. Interviews & Publications. Interviews & Publications. Anonymous = hash };. Anonymous = hash };. The current incarnation of my professional blog, {anonymous = hash};. Harkens back to 2011. However there was an earlier version—hosted on Blogger. Which did not survive the transition to my domain. Programming language and its associated community. A few of my favorite posts:. Rant: I Am Not a Cat Herder.
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Speakers / Open Source Bridge: The conference for open source citizens
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The conference for open source citizens. June 21–24, 2016. Website: http:/ ameliaabreu.com/. Blog: http:/ ameliaabreu.com/writing. Favorites: View amelias favorites. UX freelancer/ info studies phd candidate at uw/ writing about tech culture. data, archives, curation, race, gender, performance music, tv and sports. How you tell the story matters: telling better stories and making better technologies. How you tell the story matters: telling better stories and making better technologies. In this workshop, ...
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