Leadership on smcleod.net

Escaping the Time Trap: Why Estimating Effort, Not Time, Leads to Greater Success

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:41:37 +0000

Effort is non-linear and multi-dimensional. Time (with relation to delivery) is linear and one-dimensional

Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:03:41 +1100

Deployment / Delivery Frequency

I often end up needing to advocate for more frequent delivery/deployments with clients.

There’s the usual benefits commonly discussed such as improved feedback, reduced risk, well understood processes, maintainable dependencies etc… however what’s often missed entirely is how it relates to the health and sustainability of the team.

Encourage Your Peers To Contribute To Open Source

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Contributing to Open Source is important to the quality and maintainability of the software and engineering communities we rely on every day - so why is it that so many developers/engineers never participate?

Making Work Visible - Avoid DMs

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

We create more value by having conversations in public instead of behind closed doors.