Coding is a bad habit
Don't fall back on your engineering skills when you face challenges. You can't code your way out of organizational issues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use Job Descriptions to Build Great Culture
Job descriptions can be culture carriers. Done right, they give your team a concise nugget of culture that is both actionable and useful — a razor for day-to-day decision-making, hiring, or any area where you need a guide for behavior.
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?
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.
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.
