Andy Lester is renown for his evangelism of technical debt awareness, and his talk at OSCON was full of rich lessons on improving your code and yourself.

Managing upward is a theme in his talk, but it isn’t his primary focus. Andy wields upward management as a tool which can be used to improve code quality, but it’s a topic that deserves significant attention as well.

“Talk in dollars. This is the language that management understands.” — Andy Lester