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The Death Of Scrum
The Death Of Scrum
I remember in 2001 when I first heard about Agile software development and Scrum. It was a free lecture by one of the early Agile software…
Mike Borozdin
Feb 12
Security through Ownership and Usage
Security through Ownership and Usage
It’s hard to steal a thing from a person who doesn’t have it. This seems obvious, but in the physical world when you don’t have a tool you…
Mike Borozdin
Jan 15
Product Managers Used Wrong
Product Managers Used Wrong
Digging into high value and low value product management activities. Low value activities make PMs seem expandable.
Mike Borozdin
Dec 28, 2023
Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence seems to have cornered the attention of the tech industry. So much has been written about this and the analysis of…
Mike Borozdin
Dec 12, 2023
Financial Planning for Tech Careers
Financial Planning for Tech Careers
Are you thinking about a long term financial plan for your tech career, it might look less predictable than you think
Mike Borozdin
Sep 29, 2023
Conscious Leadership
It’s been over 20 years since I started the path of Engineering leadership. I’d say that during this time I have seen several different…
Mike Borozdin
Sep 6, 2023
Intentional Return to Office
After work from home due to Covid, the companies are thinking about what the future of work really looks like. Some tech companies prior to…
Mike Borozdin
Jul 7, 2023
Expectations for a Well-Integrated Software
When I got into the software business in the 90s the only real way to have a well-integrated experience was to purchase software from one…
Mike Borozdin
May 16, 2023
Rejection from Harvard MBA that turned out to be a blessing
Recently I have been going through and re-organizing my files. It forced me to go back 15-20 years and sift through piles of files that…
Mike Borozdin
Apr 24, 2023
Junior Engineer’s Resume Review
I have been extremely lucky to get hired as a junior engineer at the age of 17, and I try to pay it forward as much as I can. Taking on a…
Mike Borozdin
Jan 23, 2023
Elon’s Twitter Strategy Simplified
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has been well publicized, if you are not up to date as of the end of Nov 2022, check out any major news…
Mike Borozdin
Dec 1, 2022
Reflection on Crypto in the light of FTX
Looks like with the FTX downfall people are starting to ask good questions about the crypto space. A bunch of people lost their money. What…
Mike Borozdin
Nov 14, 2022
Title Inflation at Startups
Tech companies of all sizes have been using titles creatively for years. More senior titles make up for some compensation gaps and can win…
Mike Borozdin
Sep 24, 2022
Not API First Development
Over the years I have seen many engineering teams preach “API First Development”. The approach is well documented and means exactly what…
Mike Borozdin
Aug 29, 2022
Kubernetes, GitOps and owning your data
This year I have been working on the ConfigSync project at Google. The concept of syncing a git repository for a Kubernetes cluster has…
Mike Borozdin
Jul 5, 2022
General or Specific? Broad Vision or a Customer?
General or Specific? Broad Vision or a Customer?
When drafting a product roadmap, the tension between the vision and the specific customers often comes into play. Founders and product…
Mike Borozdin
Apr 12, 2022
Tech Startups and Railroad Tracks
Tech Startups and Railroad Tracks
Whenever you talk to a person who works or found a startup they are talking about innovation. Having spent the last 15 years in Enterprise…
Mike Borozdin
Nov 26, 2021
Career Roadmap
I went through most of my career without a roadmap. I got lucky because a lot of the things worked out: some of it was accidental, some of…
Mike Borozdin
Oct 11, 2021
Platform Teams’ Economics
Platform Teams’ Economics
After being involved in the Kubernetes project for about a year I have had some interesting reflections about the configuration and…
Mike Borozdin
Aug 16, 2021
What to do about being tracked online?
Advertisers have been talking about the improvement in ad targeting and how it benefits everyone, yet consumers ask not to be tracked. In…
Mike Borozdin
Mar 28, 2021
Long Form Communication in Software Development
After spending a better part of the decade with Slack, HipChat and Microsoft Teams I joined a team that chooses to work a different way and…
Mike Borozdin
Nov 17, 2020
Lukashenko takes Minsk off High Tech Map
Lukashenko takes Minsk off High Tech Map
A few years ago I have created a company in Belarussian High Tech Park. I found the city’s technology scene vibrant and the favorable tax…
Mike Borozdin
Sep 8, 2020
Intuitive Programming — Comments
Comments are a topic of vibrant discussion. Ever since programmers could leave some text in the program that was ignored by the machine…
Mike Borozdin
Jun 18, 2020
The Last Dance of People Management
The Last Dance on ESPN is a huge hit. I was a teenager during the Bulls’ era in the 90s and it was a wonderful way to relive the magic of…
Mike Borozdin
Jun 1, 2020
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