Tech leadership playbook

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It is often very challenging to think for yourself, and it is easier to maintain the status quo. I have a unique view of the software development world, and after researching and reflecting on different topics, I usually transform my thesis into blog posts.

Below are some of my reflections that will help you and your team achieve more when delivering value through software.

Team management

• Team Principles
• Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing

• Great leaders create principles, not rules

• Practical ways to improve team communication

• Costs of loosing an employee

• Is the 10x developer a myth?

• You are bad at haring good engineers

• Democratic voting can kill innovation and be an illusion of safety

• Team effectiveness manifesto

• What is DX and why you should invest in it?

• Expert generalist

• What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

• The small fraction of your team will do most of the work

Project management

• Agile estimation and planning
• Software development life cycle
• The cost of delays
• The truth about technical debts
• How to document software?
• Epics, User Stories and Tasks

• Project management guideline

• It is all about trade-offs

• Agile principles

• Keep track of software decisions

• Don't developers like meetings?

• What is a bug?

Software design and architecture

• How to structure code effectively
• Rethinking Domain Driven Design: Beyond Tactical Patterns
• Microservices vs monolithic
• Are you starting with microservices? Forget the DRY principle and embrace redundancy
• The modern way of managing APIs using Protobuf and OpenAPI
• Protobuf API contract guideline
• How to implement gRPC for production

QA

• How to test software effectively
• Questions/Answers about software testing
• Architecture testing
• Quality Assurance roles and responsibilities

Best practices

• Code review best practices
• Is it true that good programmers don't use the else clause?
• Java best practices
• Golang best practices
• Meetings best practices
• Logging best practices

DevOps

Service mesh - How to manage microservices communication with Istio

Big data

• How to build real-time Big Data pipeline

Java

• Java under the hood
• JVM execution dilemma

Security

• Security with PHP - Portuguese

Front-end

• A new age for front-end developers - Portuguese

Business

• Economy, investments, wealth, human nature and bitcoin