Have you ever wished that your manager would allow you to do something? Do you know that you could do a better job if you spent more time on design, wrote better tests or fixed the technical debt at the heart of your system? This is a common complaint of software developers, software managers are often pointed to as barriers to progress. Leadership is seen as an impediment rather than a help. So how can we change things, how do we manage our managers to help us all do a better job?
In this episode continuous delivery and DevOps expert, Dave Farley explores ideas around how to manage your boss, convince them to allow you to change what you do or how you do it to get better results.
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