by Matt Will | May 30, 2019 | Leadership
As I move on from Don’t Panic Labs, I thought it would be a great time to reflect on the last 6 ½ years. I realized that I haven’t really done any retrospections or reflecting as I have always been looking toward the future, and I think I may have missed out on a few...
by Chad Michel | Apr 30, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
Doug Durham and I recently completed another Software Design and Development Clinic. This week-long set of classes is designed to help level up software developers into senior developers. For us leading the classes, the week is always exhausting but they’re still one...
by Doug Durham | Mar 21, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
Have you ever wrestled with a problem in your mind and then, while trying to explain it to someone else, had an epiphany of how to solve it? This has happened to me on numerous occasions. Or have you ever jumped in to develop some code for a piece of business logic...
by Doug Durham | Mar 21, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
In my first post of this series, I discussed how ambiguity and lack of shared understanding between members of a product development team can occur when we rely on unstructured, ad hoc, and abstract communication processes (i.e., conversations and high-level user...
by Doug Durham | Mar 21, 2019 | Leadership, Our Engineering, Software Engineering, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
I was recently re-introduced to one of my favorite essays, Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses, by Leslie Lamport. Leslie is one of several thought leaders within our industry who I really admire, both for his insights into the nature of software design...
by Chad Michel | Mar 13, 2019 | Leadership
One of the great things about Lincoln is its growing number of educational opportunities centered around technology and software development. One of them is near and dear to our hearts: Beer && Code. Started by Don’t Panic Labs software engineer Branden Barber...
