⚙️ Processes & Methodology

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• 📊 Business reviews - Framework and structure for conducting regular business reviews with executive summaries, metrics, and forward-looking insights.
• 💰 Capitalizing software costs - Understanding software cost capitalization rules, tax implications, and the impact of Section 174 on tech company finances.
• 📅 Company and departmental planning - Resources and guidance for engineering executive planning at company and departmental levels.
• 📚 Company handbooks - Resources and approaches for open-sourcing company processes and creating transparent engineering handbooks.
• 🤝 Coordination - Resources and models for organizational coordination, including slime mold comparisons and practical coordination frameworks.
• 🗣️ Engineering All Hands - Best practices for conducting effective engineering all-hands meetings, including topics, formats, and Q&A strategies.
• 🎯 Engineering strategy - Frameworks for developing engineering strategy, including problem-solving approaches and aligning with product strategy.
• ⚡ Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST) - Overview of FaST agile methodology focusing on collective self-organization, visual goal representation, and short sync cycles.
• 📈 Metrics - Guidance on engineering productivity metrics, board reporting, and approaches to measuring individual and organizational performance.
• 👥 Mob programming - Survey results and best practices for effective mob programming, including when to use it and ground rules for success.
• 🎯 OKRs and goal setting - Resources for goal frameworks including OKRs, W Framework, and alternative approaches to objective setting and measurement.
• 🗑️ Prioritization - Frameworks and approaches for project prioritization including economic modeling, DRICE methodology, and Black Swan Farming.
• 🗺️ Process planning - Strategic approaches to mapping and planning your company's year-long processes and organizational rhythms.
• 🔀 Pull requests, branching, git - Best practices for pull request size, git strategies, and code review workflows including trunk-based vs git flow approaches.
• 🔧 Reliability - Resources for building reliable systems including on-call best practices, incident management, and customer communication strategies.
• ⚠️ Scaled agile framework (SAFe) - Critical analysis of SAFe methodology, survey results on its appropriateness in startups, and resources on its limitations.
• 🔷 Shape Up - Comprehensive overview of Basecamp's Shape Up methodology including six-week cycles, shaping, betting, and scope management techniques.
• 🔒 SOC2 - Comprehensive guide to SOC2 compliance including automated platform comparisons, pricing, and auditor considerations.
• 🎵 Spotify model - Overview of the functional and matrix organizational structure known as the Spotify model, including variations and adaptations.
• 🦄 Unusual work cultures - Examples of unconventional work cultures and organizational approaches, including no meetings, no deadlines, and flexible employment models.