Protecting Maker Time on an Engineering Team
Every engineering organization I have led has eventually run into the same quiet crisis. The team is busy. Calendars are full. Slack never stops. And yet the...
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Tagged #focus
4 articles tagged #focus.
The Meeting Audit Every Team Needs
Every engineering organization I have worked in has a quiet, expensive problem hiding in plain sight: the calendar. Meetings accrete like sediment. A standup...
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The True Cost of Context Switching
Every engineering leader I know can recite the headline statistic about context switching: it takes something like twenty-three minutes to fully recover focus...
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The Manager's Guide to Saying No
Early in my career I thought that being a good engineering manager meant being a reliable yes. Yes to the new feature, yes to the cross-team favor, yes to the...
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