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Becoming an Engineering Leader Panel at RailsConf 2017

This is where my thoughts and passion lie right now and I was incredibly excited to have this panel accepted at RailsConf. I was even more excited to have such an amazing, diverse, thoughtful group of panelists in Abel Martin, Neha Batra, and Shay Howe. Are you a new manager? Have you been asked to lead a project? Do you want to see change in your company but ...

Thoughts on team tension

We all want to work in a collaborative, open, communicative environment, right? Ok. Maybe not all of you. But at the very least, you don't want to work with people you dislike, have totally different values and ideas than you and you disagree with often. In others word, you don't want to have tension with your team. Right? (more…)

Being tough vs. being clear

"If I knew that, I wouldn't have …" The moment a company, manager, or leader hears these words their instinct is to create a policy or document or thing that clarifies the expectation. At least that's the goal. What often happens is that they add tough language ("You will be terminated if you do X") in an effort to make sure everyone knows what will ...

Is easier always better?

I understand the desire to make parts of the dev process painless - CI, deployment, a nice editor, etc. But I've been wondering lately if the constant focus on these small efficiencies and Rails ease of development has caused us to see anything that isn't the simplest as bad. (more…)