Engineering Management 2 Sep 2024 · 5 min read Wage War On Communication Creep With These 4 Time-Saving Strategies You've heard of scope creep when teams keep adding new requirements without end. "Communication creep" is the same, only for communication. Read more
Developer Productivity 24 Nov 2023 · 5 min read Dear Developers: Managers Aren’t Actually Your Enemies As a software developer, you may often feel like engineering managers are blocking you with bureaucracy and pointless work rather than helping you do your job. I get it — I’ Read more
Developer Productivity 23 Nov 2023 · 4 min read The Delicate Balance: Promoting Accountability Without Suffocating Talent In the early days, managing this team was easy. You dreamed about ways to take the product to the next level. Your team’s passion and talent made your job Read more
Developer Productivity 20 Nov 2023 · 4 min read Time Tracking: Friend or Foe of Engineering Productivity? Imagine you’re an engineering manager at a tech startup overseeing a fully remote team of developers. Features are being delivered behind schedule, littered with bugs. Your developers are taking Read more
Developer Productivity 14 Nov 2023 · 4 min read Shortening Lead Times: A Data-Driven Approach As an engineering manager, I’m constantly trying to wrap my head around how hard it is to estimate software timelines. No matter how we try, things end up taking Read more
Metrics 26 Oct 2023 · 3 min read The Problem with Individual Performance Metrics I stumbled upon a blog post on Hacker News that I wanted to write about for a while. In it, Dan North, a consultant from the UK, talks about the Read more
Developer Productivity 29 Sep 2023 · 4 min read Curing the Disease of Underperformance in Engineering Teams According to recent surveys, 26% of employees are considered underperformers, costing companies up to $3.4M in lost productivity per 1,000 workers. Engineering teams are not immune to this Read more
Developer Productivity 28 Sep 2023 · 4 min read Boost Engineering Velocity: How to Get Unstuck and Ship Faster In the fast-paced world of software development, engineering teams face immense pressure to deliver value quickly. However, bottlenecks like misalignment, lack of visibility, and constant context switching can grind productivity Read more
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