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10 Top Leadership Anti-Patterns

March 14, 2018 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Reading Time: 7 minutes

What Is a Leader?

Leadership is a poorly understood concept that is often confused with position or title. The confusion is due to the expectation that someone with an influential role must be a leader. However, that expectation represents an ideal, not always a reality.

Some people who climbed the ladder end up being weak leaders at their new level. They get there because were competent in a different role and one of two things occurred: either they reached a point where the power they acquired corrupted them, or they were promoted into a level of incompetency, fulfilling the premise of the . ... 

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Filed Under: leadership Tagged With: advice, career, leadership, people

5 Reason Why I Love Being Wrong

March 9, 2018 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Reading Time: 5 minutes

When I was programming 100% of my time, it was my job to write robust and maintainable code. My work needed to be well documented, designed with the proper level of abstraction and as bug-free and efficient as possible. I also had to come up with good ideas for how to resolve problems and create viable products.

As a developer, I had to be right a lot of the time. Being wrong when writing code resulted in bugs and other issues. Regardless of code reviews and testing, dumb ideas in software code have a way of costing an ever-increasing tax. ... 

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Filed Under: leadership Tagged With: advice, career, culture, leadership, people, teams, work environment

Doodle Tuesday: The Stuff of Nightmares

March 6, 2018 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Reading Time: 1 minute

There are very few things that can ruin your day as much as Git being down. That’s exactly what happened to BitBucket (and the whole Atlassian suite) last week on 3/2/2018. This doodle commemorates that rare and unpleasant occurrence. Hopefully, this is not going to be a recurring theme.

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Filed Under: doodle tuesday Tagged With: advice, doodle

Software Engineering Productivity: Perception, Reality, and Fallacies

March 5, 2018 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Reading Time: 10 minutes

Engineering Productivity Is Critical

Software engineering leaders need to hire, organize, manage and lead talented and productive engineering teams. A productive team is capable of ideating, innovating and ultimately delivering what the business needs at the time it needs it.

Software Engineers are well-paid professionals and often represent the life and blood of the organization, but also one of the largest cost centers in the budget. For that reason, there is unavoidable scrutiny on the productivity of every engineering team and the allocation of its resources. ... 

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Filed Under: productivity Tagged With: advice, agile, culture, fallacies, leadership, people, productivity

A Programmer Burnout Story; How to Recognize it And Avoid it

February 26, 2018 by Lorenzo Pasqualis 4 Comments

Reading Time: 7 minutes

I am very interested in psychology, but I am not a psychologist. I do not have any specific or tangential formal education on the phenomenon of burnout. My experience with it is from the trenches. I have been in some nasty ones, knee deep in the mud, grasping for something solid to avoid going down and drowning. I have observed software developers burnout, and I know how bad it can get.

I got close to get burnout myself a couple of times but managed to avoid it by doing research on the topic and taking decisive actions. I have seen friends and co-workers fall deep into it, and struggle to get out of its hideous embrace. I have also helped some of them to get out of it. ... 

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Filed Under: bolbo, health Tagged With: advice, balance, bolbo, career, culture, leadership, people, strategy, teams, work environment

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