engineering-management
Bullshit Deadlines
Don't let bullshit deadlines wreck your organization's work quality.
engineering-management
engineering-management
Prioritization is the Key to Fast Moving Teams
The key to moving quickly and delivering value as a team in a startup is ruthless prioritization. It's the acceptance of the fact that there is only one pipe and you can only get so much through that pipe in a given amount of time. So with that
productivity
One weird trick so GitHub doesn't wreck your inbox
When you join a new GitHub organization it can quickly wreck your inbox. Here's a quick tip to prevent that mess.
engineering-management
Building Aggressively Helpful Teams
A simple two part trick to build teams that collaborate early, and often.
engineering-management
KPIs for Early Stage CTOs
Metrics that you ought to be interested in as an early stage technology leader, for teams, individuals, and the organization as a whole.
engineering-management
Doing it all is not your job, Team Leader!
In a leadership role your job is to grow your team and deliver value. You can't do that if you're too busy trying to do it all.
engineering-management
Chaos Engineering with the Vacation Simulator
Increase resilience through team level chaos engineering using simulated vacations.
engineering-management
How Tech is Creating Its Own Dust Bowl
Historically, farmers in the USA have neglected managing the health of their soil. This is because there has always been “more land out west”. This is what led to the Dust Bowl, during which as much as 75% of the top soil in some places was lost. This resulted in
hiring
Moving Fast in Hiring Gives You an Edge
Streamlining your hiring process is a source of competitive advantage. Measure it, and improve.
engineering-management
Nothing's on Fire... So Now What?
So you've done it. No more fires. You're the dog that has caught the car that you've spent so long chasing, you didn't know what you'd do when you finally caught it. You can start to feel like you'
engineering-management
Can Your Team's Velocity Be Too Fast?
Velocity as measured by frequency of deploys can be too fast. How to address that depends on the causes.
engineering-management
Killing Momentum with Good Intentions
Today's story is a story about failure on my part. One of the joys of being an engineering leader is mentoring and guiding folks towards new shared best practices, mental models, and design patterns. One of my teams had been incrementally delivering a mission critical set of features