Cowardice
Cowards who choose survival above life
Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
Helping software teams like yours to build better software faster by making you awesome!
Latest posts
Jumping the gun
On being "trigger happy"
Self care
Taking care of myself
I'm not enough
The insidious feeling of being an imposter
Who do you want your customers to become?
When you verbalise your vision for your customers future
The Whole Team
Team or individual contributors?
Small thoughts
Those little thoughts you have now and then
Agreements vs. Expectations
When potatos are not tomatos
On Quality
Why building quality into your software will increase your productivity
On Estimation
The flawed art of estimating work to be done
Why Kyiv is better than MoSCoW
For project priotisation and otherwise
H.E.A.T.
On using the scientific method to experiment and set goals
Personal Productivity
Dealing with an ineffective manager
Don't risk your career when dealing with an ineffective manager
Brutal Honesty
Some people ( specially in tech ) swear by the mantra of brutal honesty
The Manager vs. The Leader
Having leadership qualities will empower your team.
7 Toxic Work Habits
Toxic habits that have become the norm for many
Leading from within
Leading when you are not in charge (a simple guide)
Truth Telling
Today, more then ever, we need to speak the truth
Commands and Queries
Applying something like CQRS in a RoR Application
Clarity
Originally posted in my Beyond Inceptions newsletter and adapted for this blog
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Strategy
Coaching team leaders is a very rewarding experience, you get to share and learn...
Embrace Mistakes
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years is the power of experiments...
Agile is...
I'm a little late to the conversation (by years), but I wanted to share my views anyways...
Don't Hire Top Talent
Talent is overrated. Top performers don’t perform in a vacuum, they are part of a team...
Minimum Viable Product
I came across that post by Vasco Duarte on LinkedIn, and it made me wonder...
Feedback
Creating an environment where giving and receiving feedback is part of the...
Technical Debt
Many teams I work with usually blame the state of their codebase to Technical Debt.
Shaped
Writing
During a coaching session today my coachee and myself talked about the importance of writing...
Practice and Preparation
During my Christmas break, I am catching up with my reading, spending time reading the books I had set aside a while ago.