The switch from an individual contributor role into that of a manager comes with some challenges. One that is a particular shock to the system is meeting overload. You not only need to manage direct supports, you also have to manage your calendar. The sooner you develop an intentional approach to ma…
Brett McCarty
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton The quote above is a common saying in software development. After reading Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles, I began to think about how we name things. In the book, the term d…
Brett McCarty
It was my first day on the job and I remember the excitement of starting work at a "large" company with almost 30 developers! I had never worked at a place this large and I was waiting anxiously to get started. The things I will learn, the places I will go. I will get to work directly with…
Brett McCarty