2023-12-21T00:00:00Z John Barton https://johnbarton.co/ https://johnbarton.co/posts/goodbye-hecate/ 2023-12-21T00:00:00Z

https://johnbarton.co/posts/devtomanager-founder-interview/ 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z

An interview with Siddhant Goel, founder of Developer to Manager, an excellent resource for recently promoted engineering managers.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/pendulum-on-the-ladder/ 2019-03-21T00:00:00Z

Is it necessary to swing the pendulum between management and engineering roles to remain a competent technical leader?

https://johnbarton.co/posts/books-for-the-new-cto/ 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z

The best books to read as a new engineering manager or CTO of a small but growing product team reporting directly to the CEO.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/code-review-review-is-the-managers-job/ 2018-08-15T00:00:00Z

Code review is such a high value, high leverage team activity that every manager should ensure the process is done well.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/how-should-managers-code/ 2018-07-03T00:00:00Z

The interesting question isn't 'should managers code?' but instead how and why should managers code.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/happy-tenth-birthday-pull-requests/ 2018-02-24T00:00:00Z

A quick braindump of the year primarily to test out the new blogging feature I built for my site.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/developers-on-call/ 2018-02-11T00:00:00Z

Developers not on call benefit from a status quo that is both morally questionable and ultimately unhelpful for software quality.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/book-review-one-strategy/ 2018-01-17T00:00:00Z

I spent a year reading this book and if you manage products or engineers you should too.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/three-flavours-of-iteration/ 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z

A quick braindump of the year primarily to test out the new blogging feature I built for my site.

https://johnbarton.co/posts/2017-in-review/ 2017-12-31T00:00:00Z

A quick braindump of the year primarily to test out the new blogging feature I built for my site.