TL;DR — I feel that informal job interviews (in a cafe, pub, coffee shop, park, …) can increase the chances that the personal biases of the interviewer(s) will impact the outcome and introduce unethical and …
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Agile Estimation Isn’t All Numbers
Regardless of what method you use or what “Agile” methodology or implementation you subscribe to … you probably estimate tasks as a team in some way. Sometimes, particuarly if things are dragging on a bit, …
Continue readingA Question Answered: From Junior to Principal
I interview a lot of software engineers at various points in their career; everything from junior developers fresh from University through to Principal Engineers who are masters of their craft. One of the questions I …
Continue reading‘Boring’ Projects – Part One: What is boring?
In these posts, I’m hoping to deal with the topic of ‘boring’ projects. I’ll look at what boring means (to me at least) and how the negative stigma of ‘boring’ projects is undeserved in many ways.
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