Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me

When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.

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Using anti-requirements to find system boundaries

We all love building greenfield projects. 1 But inevitably, starting a new project involves lots of meetings with business stakeholders to hash out initial requirements and canonical data models.

Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks

This article reviews earlier articles on the topic of residuality theory and places residuality theory in the context of the complexity sciences, relating the major concepts of residuality theory in terms of Kauffman Networks, complex networks, random simulations, and attractors.

The Definition of Ready and Its Dangers

Although not as popular as a Definition of Done, some Scrum teams use a Definition of Ready to control what product backlog items can enter an iteration.

How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?

Each of us has an implicit reputation score, which formal power can only overcome to an extent. Even the most junior engineer can work up a respectable reputation over time, and even principal engineers can fritter theirs away by shooting off at the mouth.

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My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects

Whether it's building a new project from scratch, implementing a big feature, or beginning a large refactor, it can be difficult to stay motivated and complete large technical projects. A method that works really well for me is to continuously see real results and to order my work based on that.

Be Plainspoken

It takes practice to communicate well. Being a great writer or communicator is a kind of superpower that makes nearly every aspect of your life easier. But with great power comes great responsibility; the clarifying power of language can also be used to confound.