Musings of a Software Development Manager

Two weeks into the new app dev manager with a new organization. After moving through this transition a few times I can pass on the following advice:

Start your one-on-ones or continue the existing ones.
Spend a lot of time talking and walking around. Your brand new, and you need to get out and [...]

This week I started fresh with a new company and a new title. After four years as a Software Development Manager and a short stint as an Enterprise Architecture Manager I’ve now returned to managing a group of internal IT developers. The current title is Application Development Manager.
The new organization is full of [...]

A sense of fun can help new practice adoptions. After reading a post by Clint Shank on coming up with a continuous integration game Erik Ramfelt went ahead and created a Hudson plugin.
Currently the points you get are:

-10 points for breaking a build
0 points for breaking a build that already was broken
+1 points for [...]