Steve Bennett - Engineering Leader

Group lead for Software Engineering teams, practices, tooling and delivery processes.

Once you’ve worked on a few different software projects, you notice that different processes tend to work better for some and not others.

Responsible for UK Engineering, Operations Tooling, Identity Verification, Authentication, User Profiles, Subscription Tier Management and Fraud prevention.

There are so many great books that I could recommend for a new manager.

Recently I was asked what resources I would recommend for someone moving from an engineering role and taking on a management role.

Life is weird right now.

This week, after over 3 and a half years, I left Alfresco.

In many organisations, the request for feedback comes as part of a performance review cycle.

Recently I got into a conversation about measuring the performance of Engineering teams.

It’s been almost nine months since my last blog entry.

Late in March 2018 I decided to delete my Facebook account.

I’ve been spending a fair amount of time recently reworking our career paths.

I believe that one of the most powerful things you can do as a leader is to own your mistakes.

Choosing the “best tool for the job” is a mantra that many software engineers repeat when asked to explain their choice of tool, language or framework.

I was fortunate enough to spend the last couple of days at Lead Developer 2017 in London.

Part of the role of an Engineering Manager is to help others to achieve their career aspirations.

Early today I tweeted this, and I thought it was worth giving a little more detail as to what was underlying this pithy sound-bite.

This is part two of my review of books I’ve read in 2016.

At the start of 2016, I made a resolution to read more.

What are the little things that annoy you in your current role?

🗣 Calling all Engineering Managers!

“In computer programming, an Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of routine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software an applications A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks, which are

Wow.

Leading a team of 70+ Engineers to deliver the Alfresco Digital Business Platform, which brings together Content, Process and Governance Services to enable some of the worlds largest enterprises to improve the efficiency of their businesses.

Yesterday was a momentous day in British history.

How do you know when something is “Done”?

Engineering manager looking after 16 developers in the shopping (marksandspencer.com) area of M&S Digital.

Recently, an article about the changes to the development process at Yahoo caught my eye.

I’ve become a bit of a fan of pair programming over the years.

Such is my life at the moment, I started writing this article on my smartphone whilst commuting home from work.

I’m lucky enough, at least in my opinion, to work in a team that values extreme programming practices.

Recently I’ve been spending a great deal of time screening technical CVs.

Unit testing can be hard.

Is being a manual tester a dead-end career as @jsonmez says in his video response for Simple Programmer?

What makes a person a Senior Software Engineer?

I recently published an article on my blog titled “You don’t need a bug tracker” .

If you’re writing software, chances are you use some sort of issue tracking tool.

I’ve finally got round to adding my notes from the final day of Øredev 2014.

This is the second in a three part series giving an overview of the sessions I attended at Øredev 2014.

I attended Øredev 2014 to present a talk with Ben Kelly on the relationship between testers and developers at eBay.

This week I completed my first talk at a major developer conference, Øredev in Malmö.

All agile teams building software do it every day.

Ben has superpowers.

In the week that Facebook turned 10, I decided to rethink my own use of the social network.

This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for almost a year now, and the relaunch of my blog is a great opportunity to get it out there.

Agile team lead, with line management responsibility for 6 engineers.

Technical team lead for agile product delivery team with line management responsibility for 3 engineers and Scrum team delivery.

Graduate software developer building Windows client applications using C#, Java and Eclipse Rich Client Platform.