Joel Spolsky's article The Iceberg Secret, Revealed [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000356.html] is, for me, one of his most memorable articles. He frames the situation as follows: > "I don't know what's wrong with my development team," the CEO thinks to himself. "Things were going so well when we| Colin Breck
I've had a few opportunities to be a team lead, but I've always declined these opportunities. Sometimes it was because I felt the project or the timing just wasn't quite right, but, as much as anything, it was because I wanted to keep developing my technical skills by doing the| Colin Breck
When you work in engineering or operations, you become intimately familiar with the challenges of technical debt. It can be difficult, however, to communicate the full cost of technical debt to others in the organization, particularly to people who are non-technical. Communicating the latent risks for software systems that are| Colin Breck
