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communication
- Some AI surprises in late 2025
- Reflecting power - using power you don't have
- Your team may need a Hero Rotation
- Why and how to do skip level 1-1s
- Macho leadership and bro culture
- Velocity role 2 - the Mole
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Make changes that people will embrace
- Use these tips to improve your executive presence
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- Liaison - the spy you'll love to send to other teams
- 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)
- Exploration and exploitation in technical standards
- Everyone lies to leaders
- Unusual tips to keep Slack from becoming a nightmare
- How to refactor meetings as they grow with the rule of eight
- Glue your happy brains together with shared state
- Tools to make your organization better
- How to be an information flow superhero
meetings
- Some AI surprises in late 2025
- Task Forces can solve (some of) your cross-functional challenges
- Massively multiplayer retrospectives
- The secret to holding a candidate review meeting that isn't boring as hell
- A history of Mini-Ms
- Variations for Mini-M management support groups
- How to implement Mini-M support groups
- Uplevel your managers with Mini-M support groups
- Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversity
- Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversity
- How to refactor meetings as they grow with the rule of eight
- Tools to make your organization better
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
prioritization
- Getting out of thrash mode
- Some shoulds for strategy
- Piles point out your problems aka why your AI coding is slowing things down
- The Campsite Rule
- Tiny Thursdays
- Don't repeat incidents
- Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionist
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- Books on management
- How to not screw up your product strategy
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Increase your impact with upstream thinking
delivery
- Reducing dependencies
- Don't make your engineering team commit
- Piles point out your problems aka why your AI coding is slowing things down
- The Campsite Rule
- Your team may need a Hero Rotation
- Tiny Thursdays
- Managing a bottleneck team
- The danger of fan out work
- Velocity role 4 - the Nowist
- Velocity role 3 - the Dodger
- Velocity role 2 - the Mole
- Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionist
- 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
- A weekly project plan you will want to frame
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?
- Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns
- Demo-driven development
- Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective
- What can air combat teach us about software project failure?
- Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos
complexity
- Reducing dependencies
- Piles point out your problems aka why your AI coding is slowing things down
- The Campsite Rule
- How to develop a sixth sense for the long-term
- How to avoid being a bottleneck leader
- Organizational work and the second job
- The danger of fan out work
- Organizational danger zones
- A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
- Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos
org-design
- Reducing dependencies
- Managing a bottleneck team
- Organizational danger zones
- A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time
- Books on management
- 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?
- Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well together
- How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
- How to refactor meetings as they grow with the rule of eight
- Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective
- Completed staff work
goal-setting
- Some shoulds for strategy
- Organizational work and the second job
- Strategy pitfalls (on the Level Up podcast)
- Velocity role 4 - the Nowist
- Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionist
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- Leaders make their own problems
- How to not screw up your product strategy
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Don’t use goal frameworks to manage projects
- Use OKRs to drive equity
product-management
agile
- Don't make your engineering team commit
- Massively multiplayer retrospectives
- A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time
- A weekly project plan you will want to frame
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos
project-management
- Don't make your engineering team commit
- Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineer
- A weekly project plan you will want to frame
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?
- Don’t use goal frameworks to manage projects
- Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns
- Demo-driven development
leadership
- Reflecting power - using power you don't have
- How to develop a sixth sense for the long-term
- How to avoid being a bottleneck leader
- Macho leadership and bro culture
- Group leadership coaching
- How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrain
- Advice for new directors
- Books on management
- Leaders make their own problems
- Use these tips to improve your executive presence
- Everyone lies to leaders
- Completed staff work
coordination-models
- Task Forces can solve (some of) your cross-functional challenges
- Your team may need a Hero Rotation
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Liaison - the spy you'll love to send to other teams
- Don’t use goal frameworks to manage projects
- Scale platform teams with the best approach for platform teams - self-service
- Beware the service provider model - a recipe for engineering team failure
- No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making
- Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well together
coordination-models-team
- Task Forces can solve (some of) your cross-functional challenges
- Your team may need a Hero Rotation
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Liaison - the spy you'll love to send to other teams
- Scale platform teams with the best approach for platform teams - self-service
- Beware the service provider model - a recipe for engineering team failure
reliability
information-flow
- Your team may need a Hero Rotation
- Why and how to do skip level 1-1s
- How to avoid being a bottleneck leader
- Velocity role 2 - the Mole
- Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
- Advice for new directors
- Your process should be open source
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Liaison - the spy you'll love to send to other teams
- Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well together
- How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
- How to be an information flow superhero
remote-work
- Massively multiplayer retrospectives
- Your process should be open source
- Using a DSLR for video conferencing
- Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversity
- Unusual tips to keep Slack from becoming a nightmare
- Glue your happy brains together with shared state
- Tools to make your organization better
company-culture
- Organizational work and the second job
- Macho leadership and bro culture
- How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrain
- A history of Mini-Ms
- High trust and low trust organizations
- Your process should be open source
- Variations for Mini-M management support groups
- How to implement Mini-M support groups
- Uplevel your managers with Mini-M support groups
- If you want to be a terrible manager, focus on being a shit shield
- How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
- Everyone lies to leaders
- Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversity
- Use OKRs to drive equity
- Increase your impact with upstream thinking
- Implementing promotion bias checks
- Tools to make your organization better
- Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos
- A practical guide to implementing pay equity in engineering
- If you want a good company culture, focus on equity
diversity-equity-and-inclusion
- Organizational work and the second job
- Macho leadership and bro culture
- What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
- Use these tips to improve your executive presence
- Bundled hiring to double the effectiveness of your hiring process
- Write compelling and unbiased job descriptions
- 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
- Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversity
- Use OKRs to drive equity
- Implementing promotion bias checks
- A practical guide to implementing pay equity in engineering
- If you want a good company culture, focus on equity
process
platform-engineering
- Managing a bottleneck team
- The danger of fan out work
- Evil staging and gauntlet programs, tools to increase your software reliability
- The dangers of unreliable platforms (on the SRE Path podcast)
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- Scale platform teams with the best approach for platform teams - self-service
architecture
podcast
software-design
standards
platform
velocity-roles
velocity
- Velocity role 4 - the Nowist
- Velocity role 3 - the Dodger
- Velocity role 2 - the Mole
- Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionist
- Tactical advice for building effective eng teams, anti-patterns to avoid (Snack bites podcast)
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?
- Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- What can air combat teach us about software project failure?
- Managing features and releases without a developer in the room
okrs
mentorship
- Group leadership coaching
- The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
- How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrain
- A history of Mini-Ms
- Advice for new directors
- Variations for Mini-M management support groups
- How to implement Mini-M support groups
- Uplevel your managers with Mini-M support groups
- Completed staff work
self-promotion
dzone-featured
- Organizational danger zones
- The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
- A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time
- The ultimate playbook for hiring engineering managers - a step-by-step guide
- How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrain
- Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineer
- Advice for new directors
- Your process should be open source
- Uplevel your managers with Mini-M support groups
- Leaders make their own problems
- A weekly project plan you will want to frame
- How to not screw up your product strategy
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
- Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns
hiring
- The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
- The ultimate playbook for hiring engineering managers - a step-by-step guide
- The secret to holding a candidate review meeting that isn't boring as hell
- What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
- 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
- Coordinate your interviews with assertion-based interview plans
onboarding
recruiting
hacker-news
- The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
- Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineer
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
- What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making
- How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
- Demo-driven development
roles
- 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
- Advice for new directors
- Leaders make their own problems
- If you want to be a terrible manager, focus on being a shit shield
- Can this ownership exercise improve how you work with others?
consulting
interviewing
feature-flags
hackernoon-frontpage
popular
- Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineer
- Advice for new directors
- What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Demo-driven development
- Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective
coordination-models-centralized
mini-m
engineering-handbook
pay-equity
- Implementing software engineering levels (with fully-usable examples)
- What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
- Write compelling and unbiased job descriptions
- 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
- A practical guide to implementing pay equity in engineering