CohereinCohereLevel up by managing up: an engineer’s primerA few months back, I shared a quick lightning talk at Fog City Ruby on managing up. This article is a quick primer on one way to approach…Jan 14, 2019Jan 14, 2019
CohereinCohereCohere 2018 Year in Review — Reflections on Financial, Mental, Physical and Relational HealthIn 2017, Jennifer, Betsy, and I were burnt out. Over the past two years, we had grown an engineering team from 4 to 40 and extended a…Jan 3, 2019Jan 3, 2019
CohereinCohereEngineering Managers: It’s Time to Write Better Job DescriptionsSoftware engineers have the highest turnover rate of any industry with an average tenure of 2~3 years. Why? Because people leave managers…Dec 10, 2018Dec 10, 2018
CohereImplementation Strategies for Integrating External Services Into Your ApplicationMuch of modern software relies on external services to take responsibility for some aspect of the product’s feature set. This trend will…Nov 29, 2018Nov 29, 2018
CohereinCoherePassion isn’t terriblePassionate candidates can be counterproductive to your company’s goals if that passion isn’t aligned with your company’s interests.Nov 26, 2018Nov 26, 2018
CohereinCoherePair programming problems are not a smellEarlier this year, Betsy and I sat down and wrote down a few dozen types of dysfunctional behaviors we’ve experienced while pair…Nov 16, 2018Nov 16, 2018
CohereMetrics, Async/Await, and Really Big HammersThe other night my partner Chris asked me over dinner, “Betsy, how would you handle a call to a metrics library using async/await?”Oct 30, 2018Oct 30, 2018
CohereinCohereDesigning a Directed Conversational InterviewIn Thinking Fast and Slow, Dr. Daniel Kahneman introduces the concept of a fact-based, structured interview to mitigate the numerous…Oct 9, 2018Oct 9, 2018
CohereinCoherePractical Empathy, or: How I Stopped Hating Pair ProgrammingI used to think I hated pairing.Sep 14, 2018Sep 14, 2018
CohereinCohereIntroducing “Let’s Pair!”, A Zine Series on Effective Pair Programming TechniquesPair programming! As polarizing a topic as the Editor Wars. People love or hate pairing, and for good reason! It’s a tough skill with…Sep 6, 2018Sep 6, 2018
