Magic in the Mundane: Compounding Interest For Organizations
There is magic in mundane processes applied with discipline. Use RCAs and processes to massively improve your world.
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7 min read
Productivity Plow, Clear a Path to Success
Organizations build out teams around 'Engineering Productivity.' It takes fundamental changes to the organization's structure and a management to improve productivity.
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8 min read
Get Your Teams to Estimate Well
Technologists hate estimating. They know that any estimate they give is wrong, and that makes the team look bad. That is our fault. We ask the team to provide us with estimates that are both precise and accurate.
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8 min read
Set up Your Engineering Teams for Success
Organizations need to be comprised of agile, autonomous teams that can deliver with minimal coordination with other teams. Those teams must plan work, solve problems, make decisions, and review progress in service of a specific set of projects and services.
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8 min read
Happy People Know What's Going On
You must communicate change for it to be effective. Randomly mentioning it to a direct is not enough. Learn to communicate change effectively with low overhead.
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6 min read
Use Job Descriptions to Build Great Culture
TLDR;Job Descriptions are often a useless grab bag of bullet points that may or may not be related to accomplishing the mission of a role. In the vast majority of cases, they focus on compliance rather than optimizing them as a tool that supports a positive culture. If you
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16 min read
How to Decide to Fire
Firing is easy when someone is misbehaving. It is much harder when they are performing inconsistently. How do you know when to fire?
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6 min read
Use the Right Lever for Successful Change
Successful change requires doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time. It requires the using the right lever with the right pivot point.
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11 min read
Things Are Great, Right? Measuring Progress
How do you know you are improving? You measure it. In an organizational setting that is hard. This article gives you the solution.
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9 min read