The implementation of (almost) every software product starts with someone defining what needs to be built and how the software is supposed to behave. …

Every developer probably have heard the term code smells which was popularized in Martin Fowler’s refactoring book from 1999. According to wikipedia, a code smell is “any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. …

This is the first iteration of my Laws of Human Software Leadership. I expect this list to grow in the next iterations, but I guess this is a good list to start with. My idea was to list a few things that I judge to be very important for a…

If you didn’t read the first part of this post, you can find it here. I came across a great blog post about what Leadership will be in 2030. The author was looking at a time window of 10 years and his assumption is that businesses will be different as…

I came across a great blog post about what Leadership will be in 2030, which was published in August/2020. The author was looking at a time window of 10 years and his assumption is that businesses will be different as time goes by and the effective leader in 2030 needs…

The idea of a team that has 100% harmony, people agreeing with each other 100% of the time, zero discussions and no misunderstanding is as unrealistic as the picture you can see below (nothing against unicorns :P). It is more way more realistic to assume that there will be always…

TL;DR: No, on the contrary. When I first became an engineering lead supervising a hand-full number of people, I continued to write code for a reasonable amount of my time. Back in the days, a senior manager asked me: “hey Thiago, so now you became overhead?” and I didn’t know…

Hello Humans, I decided to add this word to the name of this blog because I am convinced that this is the most important factor in any software-intensive project/product. I used to ask some of my team leads what is THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT TO BUILD GREAT PRODUCTS and I…

Leadership aspects, especially in the software industry but not limited to that, is something that has always fascinated me. I have a great amount of pleasure reading about this, increasing my knowledge through real life experience, and also dissipating some of that knowledge to whoever would be interested in this. With that, my idea with this blog is to share/compile some of my thoughts or simply share some existing resources around this topic. Here you will find random posts, mostly related to leadership, technical leadership, and related aspects of software development. Posts may range from really short tweet-like things to more elaborated posts with more robust thoughts and opinions.