Edge of Enginering Leadership

Software estimation has always been hard - a running joke in the industry for so long the joke stopped being funny.

Engineering talent market has shifted in recent years, and then shifted again due to the booming popularity of AI-powered tools.

Last time we covered the first 4 out of 6 principles I recommend considering when dealing with any kind of difficult conversations.

Many great books have been written about difficult conversations, but I’d like to revisit this topic with you, my readers.

Software is not a physical object, so the concept of decomposition is quite unnatural to consider in such a context.

There’s a lot of hype around these days about the new inevitable - the arrival of entirely independent AI developer.

2023 is behind us, but the waters in the IT industry are still wavy.

Why are they doing this?

So you are sailing along in your role successfully, projects are passing by with flying colors, and the team has its ups and downs, but overall doing great.

In Lithuania, we have this proverb (rough translation): the deeper into the forest, the more trees.