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Remote work In this post I would like to voice my opinion about remote work. Introduction Remote work grew a lot in the 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but now it has started to being seen as diminishing from the corporate world. Less and less remote positions, more in-office requirements, and more one-sided conversations about the benefits of in-person work, or blaming remote workers for slacking or being simply lazy (as if there weren’t people who go to the office and do nothing all day). [Read More]

Everybody has value In this post I tell a war story that happened during my time in a medium-sized multi-national company where I had a leadership role. Introduction Working there I had a good developer in my team with some physical disabilities (vision related). Others hand the idea that they were frustrated in their day-to-day role, and indeed it looked like they were. This developer felt not being used at their 100% capacity, and consequently, they felt undervalued. [Read More]

Rambos A one-person army, alone, in the jungle of software, fighting against the peskiest, complex, and soul-eating bugs. He (or she) can work for hours, with a tenacity of a human-hunter machine coming from the future, and his value is sometimes considered 10 times the standard engineer. Your organization depends on this individual. You cross your fingers and pray to your deity to not make you loss this prolific, highly-valued and know-it-all individal contributor. [Read More]

What is your constraint? Mine is anti-work We, as engineers, not only are worried about creating new things, we need to be able to detect the cause of future issues. However, we must not limit ourselves to software, but to the entire software development team organization. How it all started: The Phoenix Project I was reading the other day the book “The Phoenix Project”, and while the book is a good read, I was geting bored. [Read More]