Alessandro Bahgat

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Key takeaways: Advocating for your team and advocating for a project are not the same thing. Defending a struggling project can deprive your team of the chance to work on something more impactful. A shared rubric turns a painful conversation into a principled one. Kill the project before it kills momentum.

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition What I Built ScopeWise is an agentic Scope 3 Category 6 (business travel) control center for a fictional company. The landing view isn't an annual report — it's an Opportunities panel that names the four or five policy levers a sustainability lead should pull next, each ranked by estimated tCO₂e recovered.

Learning algorithms from books I learned most of what I know about algorithms by poring over a copy of Introduction to Algorithms I got while in university. The book is very well known, especially among folks who got a formal education in computer science. If you have studied it, you know the book: it is over a thousand pages long and it weighs enough to double as a doorstop.