After working as a developer for 9 years, I switched tracks to a manager position in 2021 (which is not very unusual in this industry). It’s been a bumpy road, but after 3 years I start understanding things and concepts that, retrospectively, were affecting me as a developer before. It looks like I’m starting to grasp them thanks to the fact that being a technical manager forces you to understand both software development and software business.

Today I would like to share some of these things with you.

This blog posts aims to provide an answer to the following question: ‘But WHY does it takes you 2 weeks to implement this basic button?’ 😆

In this blog post I explain that using a programming language is not entirely free.

Nowadays, most (smart) companies know that they should avoid vendor lock-in. However I still see a lot of companies allowing dev lock-in to settle in although it is almost as bad as vendor lock-in.