Two Weeks Into New Management Position

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 start [...]

April 26th, 2008 | Category: management, organization, software development | One comment - (Comments are closed)

From Software Development Manager to Application Development Manager

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 [...]

April 17th, 2008 | Category: automated builds, software development | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Continuous Integration Games

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 [...]

April 14th, 2008 | Category: automated builds, software development, test driven development | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)