Tag: management
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Cycle Time Isn't Your North Star
- Many teams obsess over DORA metrics, but speed alone isn't a strategy. This post explores why these metrics are useful signals, not your true north and how to anchor measurement...
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Culture Follows Incentives
- If you want to influence how people act at work, don't spend time on motivational Slack posts or new processes. The real lever is incentives. Most of us like to...
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Reconsidering Tech Debt
- There's a phrase I've grown wary of over the years: tech debt. It shows up in all kinds of conversations, often spoken as a half-apology, half-warning. The metaphor is sticky,...
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Engineering Toil - Seeing the Unseen Work
- It's easy to admire the peak moments in engineering: shipping features, the incident recovery, the burst of innovation after months of foundational work. But beneath the visible achievements sits something...
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Don't Improve Coordination, Eliminate It
- If you want to know how healthy your engineering org is, count the meetings on your calendar. Or better yet, count the ones labelled 'cross-team sync'. As dependencies grow, so...
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Optimising teams through the Theory of Constraints
- Using the Theory of Constraints to improve team delivery
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Finding Your Place: Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners
- Why engineering teams need different archetypes at different phases, and how mismatches quietly slow things down.
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Stuff I learned at cinch
- Today’s my last day at cinch, where I was a Tech Lead across multiple teams for the past two and a half years. I’ve learned so much working there, and...
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Notes on An Elegant Puzzle
- Will Larson's excellent "An Elegant Puzzle" deep dives into every aspect of being a tech leader at modern software companies
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Notes on A Manager's Path
- Camille Fournier's "A Manager's Path" is a guide for navigating the technical career ladder
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Managing Software Projects
- During my time working on software projects, I've began to spot trends in what makes a successful project. The most common trait I've observed in successful projects is great communication...