Posts with tag scaling
- Getting out of thrash mode
- Reducing dependencies
- How to develop a sixth sense for the long-term
- Why and how to do skip level 1-1s
- How to avoid being a bottleneck leader
- Organizational work and the second job
- Managing a bottleneck team
- The danger of fan out work
- Organizational danger zones
- Tactical advice for building effective eng teams, anti-patterns to avoid (Snack bites podcast)
- A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time
- How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrain
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- Advice for new directors
- Your process should be open source
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
- Can this ownership exercise improve how you work with others?
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making
- Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well together
- How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
- Bundled hiring to double the effectiveness of your hiring process
- Write compelling and unbiased job descriptions
- Use a candidate packet to improve your interview process
- Rethink your hiring strategy to stand out and delight the best candidates
- Your hiring process is too slow -- speed it up with these five tips
- Wonderful hiring practices that for some reason aren't more common
- Unusual tips to keep Slack from becoming a nightmare
- How to refactor meetings as they grow with the rule of eight
- Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos