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Two Useful Feedback Techniques For Engineering Managers

Giving feedback is one of the most powerful transformational tools that a manager can use to foster people growth. However, as in everything we do, there's useful and useless ways of doing that. In this article we will explore two techniques that will increase the ROI of your feedbacks.

Using Microsoft Edge During The Weekend

This weekend I was doing stuff mostly on my windows machine and decided to experiment more with tools from the Microsoft ecosystem. This post is about start using Microsoft Edge as my default browser during the weekend. Here's how it went.

Career

Changing Jobs From Agile Coach to Engineering Manager - The beginning

Some years ago, I was working was a Agile Coach. After a couple of years working at this capacity, I was not super happy and felt it was time for a change. This

hobby

Assembling and printing my first 3D model - Entering the 3D printer world

One of my hobbies is flight simulation. In the past years I decided to create a physical panel to simulate a cockpit of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. In order to advance this project,

blog

Hacking a small project over the weekend - A personal projects portfolio web page

This weekend the weather was not encouraging to go outside as you can see below. Weather outside this weekend.So, I decided to hack a small project for fun. The idea A few

Agile

The Single Reason Why Your Retrospectives Don't Deliver The Value You Expect

No matter what industry you're working on, if you do retrospectives or any kind of post-project evaluation exercise with the purpose of uncovering knowledge and finding out what can be done better next

Teams

Main Differences Between Traditional Functional Teams and Agile Teams

There are many differences between traditional functional teams and agile teams. Below I listed some that I think is part of the key differences between these two modes of team operation. Traditional Functional

Systems Thinking

The Difference Between Systems Thinking and Reductionist Thinking In Software Development

In software development, having a Systems Thinking approach means that you start from an event or a part of a system and tries to determine its connections or relationships to other parts or

Tutorials

How To Create JIRA Workflows - Beginners Guide

Creating workflows in JIRA might be a daunting task if you don’t get the foundation right. As a beginner, you need to understand first some basic concepts before implementing your first workflow

Teams

When is the best time to have a meeting?

Deciding what is the best time of day for a meeting is not always easy. But you can learn how to make this task easier and more effective. And you’ll be surprised

Management

Deming’s 14 principles and Agile Software Development: A perfect match?

I read an article that drew my attention; the article was about W. Edwards Deming’s 14 key principles for management. Honestly, I don’t remember to have read Deming’s principles in

Lifestyle

You Don't Lose Your Job. Your Company Loses You.

One of my fears was to leave my country and go to another country to learn about human development and technological entrepreneurship. I pointed out that this will imply into losing my current

mindset

A Frog or A Horse?

What do you see on the picture below? And now, if I turn the image 90 degress clockwise, what do you see? Most people will see a frog on the first drawing and

Teams

What Is A Feature Lead?

There’s a lot of resources explaining more in details many roles in IT, but one in particular I think it’s not well defined or explained. The Feature Lead. I have an

Software Development

6 characteristics of complex systems and how they relate to modern software development

When I look back to my understanding of agile and lean software development, when I first came in contact with these topics years ago, I do realize that I missed it totally at

Continuous Delivery

The Truth Is In The Past. How the UNIX design philosophy inspired nowadays software development

I watched Jez Humble’s talk at Agile 2017 and among many insights, one particular thing caught my attention. He based his continuous delivery philosophy on the UNIX design philosophy. I’m a

Teams

3 Voices You Should Have Inside Your Team

This article is not about the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Dev Team. Curious? I’ll explain what I mean. If I ask you to propose a way to organize a team that

Teams

What's Wrong With Cross-Functional Teams - Part I

What’s the best structure for software development teams? How should I structure my team? Should I use the Spotify Model? Which other options do I have? The questions above and many others

Teams

5 Traits of a Good Feature Lead

What is a Feature Lead? A Feature Lead is a role, not a job title, that can be implemented inside software development teams. It might be starting point for developers aiming to become

Agile

3 Statements That Don't Leave My Mind

Recently I’ve read some statements that keep coming to my mind at least once a week maybe more. 1 – Make it work, Make it write, Make it fast I’m a big

Tools

Is There Any Simple JIRA Email Notification Plugin That Is Not Expensive as Hell?

Finding the right email notification plugin for JIRA is not an easy task. You’ll find plenty of options and you’ll simply don’t know which one you should use. Also, most

Lifestyle

How I Approach New Year's Resolutions

This is that time of the year where most of us set resolutions for the new year that just started. We usually feel confident and hopeful that the new year will be a

Meetings

The Most Used Retrospective Exercises This Year

I’m not sure if there are any statistics about this, but last year I decided to keep track of many stuff. One of these things is which retrospective exercises I used and

Agile

Book Review: The Bottleneck Rules

Last week I’ve read a very interesting book about bottlenecks. The book was recommended by Mike Burrows during an Agendashift training I attended some weeks ago, and its name is The Bottleneck

People

Ontological Humility - A Very Interesting Concept

So, this evening I was reading some articles on Radical Candor’s website and I read a very interesting concept named Ontological Humility. I really liked the idea, and I think that this