Category: Best Practices

Imagine that someone on your team comes to you with a story about conflict with another engineer – they cannot come to an agreement on what technical approach to take, every design session boils over into an argument, code reviews turn into bickering, they cannot stand working on the same team anymore; they would like…

Nobody wakes up in the morning deciding to be wrong, even though it can feel like someone did when you wade into a technical debate. Even in professional development organizations, debates about architecture, technology or technical design can feel like internet flame wars, with people on both sides of the conversation making their points with…

Data you don’t use is like a car you don’t drive, collecting rust, parked out on the front lawn. Maybe the last time you took it out for a spin, it turned over and got you from point A to point B, it sounded a bit rough, and there was a weird smell. It probably…