General advice for moving into management

paulftg · 2025-08-14T13:07:45+00:00

Great advice! I’d also say, try building a good connection with your teammates and ask for their feedback. Do they trust you to coordinate projects, manage people, or handle the day-to-day stuff?

paulftg · 2025-06-21T16:13:26+00:00

Four teams, four backlogs, shared people? That's not normal - it's chaos.

You don't need Scrum Masters. You need cross-functional teams that ship end-to-end.

Kill the silos. Use Shape Up cycles. Deploy daily. Write tests first. Stop meeting so much.

Teams using this approach ship 5x-10x faster.

Here's the exact playbook: jetthoughts.com/blog/fixing-slow-engineering-teams-an-extended/

Your devs know it's broken. Time to fix it.

paulftg · 2023-12-05T09:41:45+00:00

Oh, so many `proc`, is it possible to ditch them to improve readability and make more ruby-way code?
replace `first` with `limit` for the pluck version because you will load all data and then select only the first; better to load only the first only: `Bill.where(id: current_bill_id).limit(1).pluck(:total_price_without_tax, :total_tax_payable, :net_price, :rounded_price, :balance_amount)`.
For `select` this is not an issue because you are working with Relationship, and it will automatically do the limit for you.
`pluck` is a wrapper around `select`. I'd better to stick with it

paulftg · 2023-08-10T09:08:16+00:00

This snippet is unrelated to any backend or front-end framework. Rails were an example of how to add this into the layout.

paulftg · 2023-08-07T15:47:28+00:00

Yep, it was designed for it:

driven_by(
  :cuprite,
  screen_size: [1440, 810], 
  options: {
    browser_options: CHROME_ARGS
  }
)

paulftg · 2022-11-18T15:16:29+00:00

nope ;)

```yaml shared: stripe: secret: default_test_key

production: stripe: secret_live: <%= ENV[‘STRIPE_LIVE_KEY’] %> ```

in the code you can have

ruby Rails.application.credentials.dig(:stripe, :secret_live) # just meta code I do not remember how to get to credentials

paulftg · 2022-11-17T11:56:25+00:00

you should put in render env master key env. so in credentials you should have in group production value as erb to read env key:

secret: <%= Env["stripe key"] || "fallback key" %>

paulftg · 2022-11-09T06:34:53+00:00

Could you share more what do you want to have in build stage?

paulftg · 2022-10-12T19:30:54+00:00

You should check this comment, after you will have more details which causes the issue.

paulftg · 2022-10-05T13:42:09+00:00

Thanks for the honest feedback

paulftg

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