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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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?
- 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.
- 11 min read

Joy in Aligning With Product

Organizations are not naturally aligned and most leaders can't restructure the org to improve alignment. Here we provide some approaches that help improve alignment with Product.
- 9 min read
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