Guide

Guide

Practical, evergreen references for engineering leaders: clear explanations, structured tools, and actionable advice.
08
Feb
Productivity Plow, Clear a Path to Success

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
04
Dec
Get Your Teams to Estimate Well

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
23
Nov
Set up Your Engineering Teams for Success

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
16
Nov
Happy People Know What's Going On

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
19
Oct
Things Are Great, Right? Measuring Progress

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.
9 min read
12
Oct
Joy in Aligning With Product

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