Jon Finerty

A personal KPI When you make plans with a friend, you have in mind the likelihood that they flake out or show up late.

My preferred philosophy of operation1 for getting stuff done has three requirements and two assumptions.

I learnt to ski when I was 231 and I can’t stop thinking about it.

I have a few beliefs.

As an Engineering Manager I’ve seen many Engineers stuck in mid-career limbo.

In an ideal world consistency in software is having one and only one way to do anything in your company, a single build pipeline, a single database technology, a single API framework, a single way to log, a single way to document, a single way to deploy……

A developer should1 be able to improve legacy, plan an architecture, write a ticket, run a release, understand users, give feedback, receive feedback, optimise, hack it, build infrastructure, abstract away detail, pair, act alone, challenge requirements,…