My name is Mitchell Lisle. I'm an Engineering Manager working across data engineering, platform, and governance. Here I write about building data systems, the teams behind them, and the messy politics of technology.
The environment you design for your team is not the backdrop to your leadership. It is a large part of the leadership itself.
A look at why software estimation is so reliably broken, and a tool I built to make it a little more honest
An interactive dashboard exploring patterns in NSW's fire history since 1970
A new tool that reveals how easily you can be identified from "anonymous" data