Engineering Metrics

(c)XKCD Wisdom It’s been a lot said and done on the field of engineering management metrics. But unfortunately, development teams have a very controversial perception of the metrics, thus it becomes more of the communication issue for the engineering managers or project managers, to introduce those metrics within a group. Speaking of the metrics, I’ve ended up working on the following metrics, that helped me forecast the team productivity and products deliverables....

September 5, 2023 · 6 min · anvyst

Pint and Larastan - pre-commit hooks

Adding laravel/pint and nunomaduro/larastan into your Laravel project using composer with --dev prefix. For both tools, we need to have configuration files, pint.json and phpstan.neon.dist in order to work. The minimal configuration for pint would look like: { "preset": "laravel" } And for larastan, following configuration is recommended: includes: - ./vendor/nunomaduro/larastan/extension.neon parameters: paths: - app/ # Level 9 is the highest level level: 5 Once added, we need to place the following bash script into ....

July 12, 2023 · 1 min · anvyst

Organizational Debt

Within organizational debt, there is a volatile subset most likely to come abruptly due, and I call that subset organizational risk. Some good examples might be a toxic team culture, a toilsome fire drill, or a struggling leader. These problems bubble up from your peers, skip-level one-on-ones, and organizational health surveys. If you care and are listening, these are hard to miss. But they are slow to fix. And, oh, do they accumulate!...

November 3, 2020 · 1 min · anvyst

What's after senior developer by Christian Heilmann

It is painful to see how clumsy companies are in trying to keep their techies happy. We do team building exercises, we offer share options. Also, we pay free lunches and try to do everything to keep people in the office. We print team T-shirts and stickers and pretend that the company is a big, happy family. We pay our technical staff a lot and wonder why people are grumpy and leave....

April 5, 2018 · 1 min · anvyst