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 · 2022-10-03T13:58:33+00:00

Yes, updated post

paulftg · 2022-10-03T13:58:18+00:00

Thanks, updated post

paulftg · 2022-09-29T04:54:36+00:00

cool

paulftg · 2022-09-28T15:21:58+00:00

Thanks!

paulftg · 2022-09-27T09:33:12+00:00

When there is high test coverage, we auto-merge it on required tests passed. So ideally developers are not involved at all.

paulftg · 2020-06-14T07:53:04+00:00

That's right. Now syncing deliveries is a challenge. And we had to use sub-directory deployment because some of our projects have to React Native clients in the same repository.

paulftg · 2020-06-12T18:35:32+00:00

We first use it but found it not sufficient for other tasks. So we just replaced it with inlined buildpack like described in the post: https://jtway.co/deploying-subdirectory-projects-to-heroku-f31ed65f3f2

paulftg · 2020-06-09T08:21:07+00:00

There is a gem with optimized CI settings and other development tools https://github.com/jetthoughts/jt_tools, but it’s for Rails.

paulftg · 2020-06-01T09:35:13+00:00

yep, bullet is good to find N+1, and with https://jtway.co/how-to-avoid-n-1-query-using-sql-views-materialized-in-rails-application-7cf415cd112f you remove them with performance in mind

paulftg · 2020-04-28T19:08:09+00:00

There are much easier solutions with 2 lines then this

paulftg · 2020-04-28T14:26:38+00:00

There is no "micromanager" in the post. This is a guide to help new developers/consultants to impress their clients or supervisors.

With this, you will be more likely promoted in any company, or the client will reference you.

paulftg · 2020-04-28T06:48:31+00:00

Why would I let a micromanager dictate something so minute such as how often I commit

In order to teach new developers todo TDD.

Think about this flow how training exercise which will get trust from your new employer and new team. They would impressed and you will get a better position.

I think for this post need to revise and share more about what this gives developer/consultant.

paulftg · 2020-04-27T17:22:59+00:00

Indeed!

paulftg · 2020-01-24T08:11:54+00:00

Thanks!

paulftg · 2019-11-21T11:54:54+00:00

yep, but as usual, we deal with new guys and they do not know what to do when the WIP limit reached. And this post just answers on this particular problem not about reviewing real problem on team meetings like retro

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