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Quality Sense Podcast: Mobile App Performance With Sofia Palamarchuk

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In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico Toledo sits down for a chat with a colleague and friend, Sofia Palamarchuk. She’s a Director and Board Member of Abstracta and the co-founder and CEO of Apptim, a tool that helps you to test and analyze native mobile app performance.

After beginning her career as a performance engineer at Abstracta, she led our expansion to the United States – heading up business development. After seeing the challenges that mobile development teams face, in 2019, she embarked on a mission to transform the way global mobile teams create quality apps.

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8 metrics for rapidly scaling dev teams

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Between November 2008 and December 2014, I transitioned from senior software engineer to dev team lead to Director of Engineering to VP of Engineering at CloudLock. During that time we grew from one office with 5 devs to four offices with 75 devs. 

Let’s just say it was a crazy 6 years :-) 

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5 Best Practices for Managing a Remote Engineering Team

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Managing a remote engineering team may not have topped your list of skills to acquire in 2020. However, the global pandemic made other plans for us this year. Remote work is now the new norm for software organizations, which is sending engineering managers scrambling to figure out what works best for communicating, collaborating, and coordinating from home. 

As luck would have it, I’ve become something of an expert at managing remote employees. My experience began in the early days of Bugsnag when my cofounder and I needed to hire engineers for our fledgling company. As San Francisco transplants, we had many roles to fill and wanted to take advantage of our networks back in the UK. In the end, we decided to build our company with an ocean and an eight-hour time difference between two offices.

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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly About Estimates

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Ask any developer to estimate how long it will take for them to finish a project. You will see the loathing in their eyes. And for good reason. Estimates have been wrongly used for decades by a lot of managers who then hold the team accountable to their estimate as if it were the actual deadline. Even more frustrating, in many cases, those managers only act on the lowest number they hear from you! It’s as if they had a min() function, and they just keep trying to get the number lower. But engineering is not magic!! No wonder the hashtag #NoEstimates has become famous.

For this to happen, we (well…especially managers) need to abide by a few rules. Then we’ll see how estimates can improve the quality of your software. Yup, you read that right. Well, in my opinion, obviously.

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