2023 was a year when I decided to grow my leadership skills even more. From a long list of books I gathered to read, I selected a few that I found very impactful. If you are a software engineer who wants to grow to a senior, staff, or manager role, understand software engineering better, or create a great resume, I have great book recommendations for you.| Daniel Idaszak - Tech Leadership, Soft Skills, and Technical Writing.
Documentation in the project is useless. Every comment and text will be outdated soon and become more misleading than useful. Writing is also a burden because it takes so much precious time.| Daniel Idaszak - Tech Leadership, Soft Skills, and Technical Writing.
One day I got a report from the quality assurance team, that everything is working correctly, but the mobile app behaves oddly after the version upgrade. In such cases, it usually means there was a data mismatch, which will be an easy fix.| Daniel Idaszak - Tech Leadership, Soft Skills, and Technical Writing.
Setting technical direction means creating a vision for every technical aspect of the project. A plan on how to approach technical decisions and overcome future issues, but also creating a vision that should be a motivation factor for a team.| www.idaszak.com
A blog for Tech Leaders and Software Engineers with a focus on Leading teams, building useful products and creating excellent Documentation.| www.idaszak.com
The way we work as software engineers is rapidly changing. We're facing new challenges, and among them, there is knowledge availability and knowledge loss. What we can do as leaders to counteract that is to prepare good documentation. But developers usually view writing as an extra burden. I want to show you that it is possible to encourage your team to write and create purposeful documentation that makes maintaining code easier.| www.idaszak.com
The story of how a Software Design Doc helped me kick off a new R&D project and allowed me to validate assumptions.| www.idaszak.com
Story on how Google improved their technical documentation by treating it as a code.| www.idaszak.com
Follow onboarding good practices with developer onboarding checklist and documentation| www.idaszak.com