New dev managers:
Want to level up your team and earn their respect?

Teach them the timeless tools:
πŸ”Ή Dependency Injection
πŸ”Ή Observer
πŸ”Ή Repository

Better code, stronger team.
What patterns made the biggest impact for you?

#dotnet #csharp #Leadership #DevManager

If you are in a position to approve equipment purchases. Please do not deny a request for a USB-C cable that is required to connect to a target device and direct them to purchase it out of pocket. That's probably a $10 purchase for a dev who will spend far more in terms of time dealing with connection issues from a bad cable.

Time is a finite resource. Money is an investment that makes sense when it's paid back within a week by recovering lost time.

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y'all should sub to my brother's #gamedev newsletter, it's great. this is the illustration for alignment is in constant entropy and i guarantee you he made it himself in #mspaint.

(i mean yes fine the rest of the newsletter is also great but the illustrations are s-tier ok)

#agile #devManager #processEngineering #games

Work Systems: How to Level up Your Process Game

Every month you’ll get one actionable step to build, lead, and scale teams & products within YOUR game studio.

Building Better Games Newsletter
As a #DevManager I want to provide an environment which allows software teams to fail safely, but not limit learning. An example might be to make DEV β€œour” internal production environment and treat it as such... i.e. hardware to match load, same alerts, same downtime requirements, etc. πŸ€”

#Introduction

Coding is in my soul. Work for a #NonProfit doing #NonProfitTech. I am a #DevManager to a close knit team with a mix of #SQLServer, #DotNet, #CraftCMS, #ReactJS.

#WeekendProjects have me happily tinkering with a #MastodonStarterKit and #IndieWeb concepts.

πŸ‘€ Grew up closeted #LGBTQIA in the 1980s rural south which certainly affected my perspective.

πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Married for 21 years.
🎡 #GenX, #Introvert, #Music lover.
🐢 Over-involved #DogDad.
✌️ #Kindness in all things.

Are you a dev lead/manager getting ready to write performance reviews? Check out this series I wrote to help!

Writing Useful Performance Reviews
https://blog.kevingoldsmith.com/2021/12/04/writing-useful-performance-reviews/
#devlead #performancereviews #devmanager

Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Assembling the data – Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens