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goal-setting
prioritization
product-management
delivery
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all costs?
- 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?
- How product engineering teams avoid dependencies -- the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- Demo-driven development
- Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns
- Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective
- What can air combat can teach us about software project failure?
- Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos
scaling
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all costs?
- 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
change-management
design
velocity
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all costs?
- Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
- Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?
- How product engineering teams avoid dependencies -- 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 can teach us about software project failure?
- Managing features and releases without a developer in the room
complexity
hacker-news
- Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all costs?
- 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
company-culture
- 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
communication
- Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
- Make changes easy for your team
- Executive presence coaching -- use these tips to become a better leader
- Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
- Liaison model - 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
project-management
- 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
- Demo-driven development
- Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns
agile
information-flow
onboarding
diversity-equity-and-inclusion
- What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
- Executive presence coaching -- use these tips to become a better leader
- 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
hiring
- 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
pay-equity
- 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
promotions
leadership
coordination-models
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- How product engineering teams avoid dependencies -- the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Liaison model - 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
- How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
- How product engineering teams avoid dependencies -- the independent executor model
- Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
- Liaison model - 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
org-design
- 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?
- How product engineering teams avoid dependencies -- 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
platform-engineering
- 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