When I was still working in my first engineering job, a manager explained to me the unwritten company policy for success: "if you did things the old way and...

Gads, how many times has a team with a sound plan been overruled by a "know-it-all" manager who doesn't want to listen? Better yet, how about the seldom seen...

Make sure that the peer-review process can recommend training and similar actions beyond just "send the *#*&@ to HR so we can dump him". Important to plan for skill-remediation as...

Actually, I am living the answer to most of what we have been discussing. Quite a few years back, my company embarked on a journey to embrace agile practices....

Given the technological advancement we see on a continous basis, I would submit that senior technologists will always prove their value to their employers, as long as they are commited...

I've been a software engineer now for over 20 years. I love the work for many reasons: it is a great opportunity to be creative, it is intellectually...

Did you know that sitting at your desk for long periods can be very unhealthy and consequently very unproductive? It is pretty routine for me to work a 9+...

No offense taken. 😀

I just gleaned some "facts" to make a stronger point about interview practices and how they sometimes don't make sense, which goes to my earlier post....

What is that noise I hear? That is the sound of developers across the entire planet hootin' and hollerin' 'cause we've finally achieved "cocky, slick thinkin', know-it-all, clown" status.

Woohoo!

Seriously...

Want to hire some good talent? Then clean up your interviewing process.

I can't tell you how many companies have done their best to make me want to run away...

A good week is when I've accomplished something positive, at work or out in the world. So most weeks are good weeks.

A bad week is usually characterized by having...

Bottom line is that we need more choices regarding cloud computing and service vendors. I want to see more competition where distinctions based on customer service, reliability and honesty...

Yup, no day off for me and my fellow employees either here on the West coast.

I have to laugh to myself (to keep the insanity at bay) when I think about the first release of the project I mentioned earlier. To make matters worse,...

My current manager was asking the other day why we had to work so much overtime on the first version of the product (it seems that all the overtime on...