The trifecta — who owns what?In most organisations that I have witnessed or been part of, leadership is often designed around the trifecta of engineering, product and…Feb 4, 2022Feb 4, 2022
Published inBetter Programming3 Myths About the Role of a Staff Engineer2. They can write code all-dayJan 23, 2022Jan 23, 2022
Published inBetter Programming5 Ways to Be Hands-on as an Engineering ManagerMaintain the child-like curiosity and open-mindedness that kept you wide awake at night during your early days as a developerJan 16, 2022Jan 16, 2022
How to surv(thr)ive remote onboardingThe world as we know it, irrevocably shifted on its’ axis a couple of years ago. When we first heard we were going to work from home ‘till…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
A milestone in our continous delivery journeyA little over a year ago, the Engineering team at Independer was at a curious cross roads. We had grown rapidly over the last few years…Apr 2, 2021Apr 2, 2021
The invisibility cloakI turn Forty-one years old today. Forty-one is a strange age for reflection. It is not forty where life purportedly begins. It is not, say…Oct 9, 2020Oct 9, 2020
How do you solve a problem like Technical Debt?To paraphrase the famous song from the movie ‘Sound of Music’ where the kind nuns throw out this rather perplexing and inexplicably…May 17, 2020May 17, 2020
Hackweek at Independer.nlWhat happens when you put a few teams of terrific developers, a definite objective with some vague goalposts and a deadline? Why, an…Jan 23, 2020Jan 23, 2020