https://bayopuddy.com/blog/ Recent content in Blogs on Bayo Puddicombe Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:54:00 +0100 https://bayopuddy.com/blog/building-effective-software-engineering-teams-part-3/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:54:00 +0100 https://bayopuddy.com/blog/building-effective-software-engineering-teams-part-3/ Recap This is Part 3 of my series on building effective software engineering teams. In this installment, I delve into a few more tangible aspects of enabling an effective engineering team. It’s remarkable how much of a difference effective tools make in improving outcomes for software engineering teams. Overview I define tooling as any element that helps streamline the process of delivering quality software. Like any production process, the goal is to maximize output for every unit of input. https://bayopuddy.com/blog/building-effective-software-engineering-teams-part-2/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:44:00 +0100 https://bayopuddy.com/blog/building-effective-software-engineering-teams-part-2/ Recap - Part 1 In the first part of this series, I discussed how some engineers are exploiting the opportunity of remote work to take on multiple full-time roles and how organizations can manage this situation. I emphasized the importance of building trust within software engineering teams, especially in the age of remote work. This article continues from there… From my conversations with engineers, some of the “bad behavior” seen today stems from their past experiences of being mistreated by organizations. https://bayopuddy.com/blog/building-effective-software-engineering-teams-part-1/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:44:00 +0100 https://bayopuddy.com/blog/building-effective-software-engineering-teams-part-1/ The Trust pandemic As we draw the curtains on year 2024, I’ve had some time to reflect and debrief on my work over the course of the year. I couldn’t help but notice that something fundamental had shifted in the world of work in general and specifically as it pertains to software engineering. It seems it all began with the COVID pandemic at the turn of the decade. All too quickly, the world adjusted to a seismic shift in the fundamental belief that ‘work’ should be done in offices, realizing it was possible to have teams work effectively on a remote basis. https://bayopuddy.com/blog/how-were-keeping-the-kids-busy/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:54:13 +0100 https://bayopuddy.com/blog/how-were-keeping-the-kids-busy/ Or How to Gamify Good Behaviour Being a parent in the digital age is hard. To be honest, not like it wasn’t hard before, but digital adds another difficulty level. Now, we have to protect children from all shades of madness online (where all their favourite entertainment now mostly reside). All it takes a one wrong click on a youtube link to go down a rabbit hole of weirdness and things that could scar impressionable minds fairly easily.