Learn When to Break the Rules to Connect with People — 📚 Connect with us. Want to hear what’s new at The Pragmatic Bookshelf? Sign up for our newsletter. You’ll be the first to know about author speaking engagements, books in beta, new books in print, and promo codes that give you discounts of up to 40 percent. Permanence Recap This article is…

Create Useful, Tidy Artifacts for Your Colleagues and Future Self — 📚 Connect with us. Want to hear what’s new at The Pragmatic Bookshelf? Sign up for our newsletter. You’ll be the first to know about author speaking engagements, books in beta, new books in print, and promo codes that give you discounts of up to 40 percent. Synchronous Recap This article is…

OK, a quick recap… In the last article we looked at the spectrum of synchronousness, which showed how there exists: A continuum between synchronous and asynchronous communication. Implicit expectations with that communication depending on the medium and format you choose to communicate with. A need to shift right along this…

How to Shift Communication for More Effective Remote Work — 📚 Connect with us. Want to hear what’s new at The Pragmatic Bookshelf? Sign up for our newsletter. You’ll be the first to know about author speaking engagements, books in beta, new books in print, and promo codes that give you discounts of up to 40 percent. Consider this: what’s…

Consider this: what’s one of the most impactful skills that you can improve as an engineer? Is it your programming? Maybe it’s your debugging? I’d like to make the case that it’s your communication. After all, software isn’t built in solitude. It is imagined, designed and implemented by teams of…

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Ah, a new year is upon us. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, we have been able to increment that damned zero to a one. Without a doubt, 2020 was one of the most challenging years in recent memory for people from all walks of life, regardless of their…

So I might be quiet for a while. — Hello, there. It’s been a number of weeks since I published an article on this site. Don’t worry though; nothing untoward has happened. In fact, something — erm — toward has happened instead. Last week I signed a contract to turn The Engineering Manager into a book! A while back…