Piles point out your problems aka why your AI coding is slowing things down August 22, 2025 #complexity #delivery #prioritization
Your team may need a Hero Rotation January 14, 2025 #delivery #information-flow #communication #coordination-models #coordination-models-team
Managing a bottleneck team June 2, 2024 #platform-engineering #delivery #scaling #architecture #org-design
The danger of fan out work May 30, 2024 #platform-engineering #delivery #scaling #complexity #architecture
Velocity role 2 - the Mole January 23, 2024 #velocity-roles #delivery #velocity #information-flow #communication
Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionist January 22, 2024 #velocity-roles #delivery #velocity #prioritization #goal-setting #okrs
Organizational danger zones November 21, 2023 #scaling #delivery #complexity #org-design #dzone-featured
Tactical advice for building effective eng teams, anti-patterns to avoid (Snack bites podcast) August 9, 2023 #podcast #scaling #roles #delivery #velocity
A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time June 22, 2023 #scaling #complexity #roles #org-design #delivery #agile #dzone-featured
A weekly project plan you will want to frame December 21, 2022 #delivery #project-management #agile #dzone-featured #hackernoon-frontpage
Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost? September 26, 2022 #delivery #scaling #change-management #design #velocity #complexity #hacker-news #dzone-featured
Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager July 1, 2022 #communication #delivery #project-management #agile #information-flow #goal-setting
Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects December 7, 2021 #delivery #velocity #project-management #prioritization #agile #hacker-news #popular
Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better? November 17, 2021 #org-design #delivery #velocity #scaling #project-management
Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model November 6, 2021 #coordination-models #coordination-models-team #org-design #delivery #velocity #product-engineering
Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding October 27, 2021 #coordination-models #coordination-models-team #org-design #delivery #velocity #platform-engineering
Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems? October 7, 2021 #platform #communication #scaling #org-design #delivery #velocity #platform-engineering
Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns February 6, 2021 #project-management #delivery #dzone-featured #hackernoon-frontpage
Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective January 18, 2021 #org-design #delivery #popular
Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos September 24, 2020 #delivery #company-culture #complexity #agile #scaling