Hugely important, mutual respect makes it possible to work together efficiently. Respect yourself, your coworkers, and your customers. Expect the same from everyone on your team, and help those who run into any difficulties with that. Any feedback is of course welcome (I sure hope my team won’t correct me too much). Read the other [Read More →]

Of course, I know and use all the favorite feedback phrases (“My door is always open”, “Let’s have regular one on ones”, etc.)  These are all good, but everybody is busy, so sometimes these happen, and sometimes they don’t. I am sure we have all had those pretty useless “Q: So how are things going?, [Read More →]

Team members are empowered to make their own decisions where appropriate and know when to consult. I personally don’t care for micro management (too much work for me), so when choosing members for my team I look for people with a strong sense of personal accountability who drive towards finding the best possible solution. That [Read More →]

In many organizations, there’s too much talk about setting goals and not enough doing it. Everybody needs to clearly understand the overall goal, and what they can do to help move forward with that goal. And let’s be clear… the overarching goal is to allow for my early retirement at a gorgeous beach on some [Read More →]

So, while I was counting and assigning bugs in Jira, I started to wonder… What makes our development team (well… probably any team) successful? Aside from me being an awesome manager dude (with tie-dye t-shirts and all), the obvious answer is: people. Now that we’ve taken care of that platitude, the real question is: How [Read More →]

In my last blog, I presented some higher level criteria for deciding what kind of machines to pick and how to set them up. This time I will offer some additional concrete tips for machine setup. This is a pretty loose collection of things I have found useful.

Due to the nature of Electric Cloud products, we frequently field questions about how to best configure a large number of machines. I’ll touch on a few points that we have found particularly interesting, both when helping customers or setting up our own internal machines.

You’ll know from my previous blog posts that we have an extensive virtual machine infrastructure here at Electric Cloud to support our build and test process (as many of our customers do). Thought I’d share a neat trick I picked up while rolling out our system. Most of us won’t need to debug at the [Read More →]

In this post I will get into some additional findings from our deployment and also tie all our findings into the deployment of ElectricAccelerator in a virtual environment. You can find part one of this article here.

At Electric Cloud, we’ve identified some best practices as we have gone through the set up of a virtual infrastructure to support our own engineering needs. If you’ve already gone through this exercise, the following may seem trivial. Or perhaps you have other nuggets of wisdom to share. (If so, please do!) Either way, I [Read More →]