Nikita Zhuk

5 more rules for IT

(This post is in Finnish since it's a reply to a LinkedIn post in Finnish). Ferrix Hovi postasi LinkedInissä erinomaisen listan ajatuksia IT-alaa harkitseville ihmisille. Jokaisen ajatuksen kohdalla nyökyttelin päätäni ja näytin mielessäni Ferrixille peukkua. Luettuani listan mielessäni alkoi heti kuulumaan ajatus: ”Loistava lista, mutta voisin kommentoida että

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

I’ve heard David Goggings name from ultra running circles and watched some of his Youtube videos. He sounded like a stereotypical motivational speaker, but as these things usually go, there is usually so much more under the surface. Sometimes David’s obsession goes way overboard - to the point

Voittajien ja häviäjien Suomi: Asuntovarallisuuden uusjako by Veera Tegelberg, Karla Kempas

Kirja onnistuu asettamaan viime vuosikymmenen asuntojen hintojen repeämisen laajempaan historialliseen ja poliittiseen kontekstiin erinomaisesti. Talouselämän asumista seuraava toimittaja Karla Kempas ja Kauppalehden datatoimittaja Veera Tegelberg käyvät läpi niitä seikkoja, jotka asettavat nykytilanteessa ihmisiä voittajien ja häviäjien leiriin käymällä läpi omistajien, vuokralaisten, perijöiden ja asuntosijoittajien näkökulmia. Toimittajat jatkavat suomalaisen omistusasumisen historialla,

In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi sounds like a remarkable young lady - a child, really, who had to endure unimaginable things and take responsibilities of decisions which no child should have to take. This was a book worth reading. In addition to describing the tragic life of Yeonmi and her family, the story describes

Managing technical quality in a codebase

Will Larson wrote a thoughtful post about managing technical quality in a codebase. The post goes through seven different approaches to managing technical quality, starting from fixing the most critical thing in your code right there and then, to planning & executing an organization-wide quality program with program sponsors, metrics,

Time for reading and workouts

There's a new interesting blog/newsletter called The Observer Effect by Sriram Krishnan which has posted two interviews so far: Marc Andreessen and Daniel Ek. Both are fairly long, so be warned. A lot of themes are covered, but the topic of productivity and personal time management is

The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel

As software engineers, we are used to designing large system architectures by defining the roles and responsibilities of each component. We assess whether some components have overlapping responsibilities, are overburdened with too many responsibilities, or if there is a gap that must be filled with a new component. Defining, maintaining,

Why are CEOs failing software engineers

The idea that Taylorism isn’t the best fit for management in creative fields like software engineering isn’t new in any sense. However, rarely do you come across an article which lays down the historical roots of different management forms, their purpose & practices, and mapping between the types

Budget as a requirement for feature development

What is the most annoying thing you encounter as a professional software engineer? Back in the days when I was actively writing code, it was often missing the right context. Work would come in as a stream of tickets, often hastily written, each representing small pieces of work that would

Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

The book is based on a research of: - 23 000 survey responses - over 2 000 organizations, including startups, large enterprises, it/software and regulated industries - projects including greenfields and legacy code - methodologies from waterfall to agile/lean The research first shows that software delivery performance is