Management
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Talking to people - the hard part of being a tech lead
Today, I stared at a to-do on my Trello board saying "schedule 1-1s with your team." Its been on my list for 2 weeks now, and even though I see it every day, I keep putting it off. I...
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Avoiding burnout as a new tech lead
Does this sound familiar? The best dev on the team is promoted to being a tech lead, despite not having any management experience. That dev then all of a sudden has to deal with: Angela, the senior...
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4 things I look for in a senior engineer
As a follow up from my last post about things I look for when hiring a junior DevOps engineer - these are the things I'm looking for out of a senior engineer. It all boils down to what I consider the...
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