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.
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.
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.