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Your Team Needs a Strategy — Here’s How to Write One

Team leaders — If I walk up to you today and ask to see your team strategy document, can you show it to me? Answer: Probably not. You…

Jun 1, 2023

Your Team Needs a Strategy — Here’s How to Write One

Jun 1, 2023

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Managing Team Health, Tech Debt, and Avoiding the Dreaded Rewrite

We’ve all been there: an experienced team staffed with brilliant engineers starting a new product strong and constantly shipping. The…

May 26, 2023

Managing Team Health, Tech Debt, and Avoiding the Dreaded Rewrite

May 26, 2023

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Buy or Build: A Handy Decision-Making Guide

This guide is a bit “make the bread, buy the butter.”

May 17, 2023

Buy or Build: A Handy Decision-Making Guide

May 17, 2023

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Why an Engineering Manager Should Not Review Code

When discussing team organization, I am often asked: “Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?” My response is to hiss like a…

May 11, 2023

Why an Engineering Manager Should Not Review Code

May 11, 2023

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Engineering Leadership, Scaling Yourself, and Building Bench

The most important skill a leader must learn is how to scale themselves.

May 3, 2023

Engineering Leadership, Scaling Yourself, and Building Bench

May 3, 2023

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Engineering Culture, Trust, and Accountability

I figured I would open with a topic I know and understand well: technical Leadership, building a healthy engineering culture, and the…

Apr 28, 2023

Engineering Culture, Trust, and Accountability

Apr 28, 2023