Career
The Staff Engineer - A Staff Engineer's perspective
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Staff Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.
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The Senior Software Engineer - A Staff Engineer's perspective
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Senior Software Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.
Career
The Professional Software Engineer - A Staff Engineer's perspective
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Professional Software Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.
Career
The Junior Software Engineer - A Staff Engineer's perspective
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Junior Software Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.
Career
How work changed being a Tech Lead
In this article I share the things that changed in my work life after becoming a Tech Lead. Especially I will cover how my contribution to the team changed and how my view changed in general.
Career
My Tech Lead journey
I share my experiences of working in a Tech Lead role for the past two and a half years. I write about the fuzziness of the role and what my expectations and those of others have been at the beginning. Finally, no one can tell you what this role is about because every team is different.
Agile
Working in a non-agile environment
When I write non-agile environment I do not necessarily mean an environment that does not use an agile methodologies like scrum or kanban. What I mean is an environment that is not agile. I made the following observations when I worked in such an environment. * there are a lot of
Focus
Email is a suboptimal medium for collaborative work
The problems of an inbox are widely discussed. Switching attention because of your unread count leads to a context switch and loss of focus. One solution is to check your inbox only a few times a day or week (this is crazy dude, he!?). Cal Newport brought up the idea
Agile
When your partner starts improving the process
I wrote about our retrospectives already in an earlier article. In this one, I would like to write about my personal experiences of changes that your partner suggests to the meetings. I started using the way of holding retrospectives mentioned in the referenced article. I chose the structure as a
Agile
My learnings as a part-time scrum master
I experienced the pretty fast growth of a company I worked for, in which scrum is used as the development process. When companies grow, teams get bigger or new teams form. In my particular case the company used to have one scrum master - let's call him Jim
Agile
The necessity of the scrum master role
In one of my past articles I briefly mentioned the roles in a scrum team. One of them is the scrum master who guides the team to be successful applying scrum. But why do you need this role? Asking from a different perspective: what happens if you remove the scrum
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Using an analog or a digital board
A key point in scrum is transparency. To create transparency of the work of a team the board plays an integral part. A discussion point in multiple scrum teams I worked in was if the board should be digital or analog. I asked myself the same question when we started