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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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...
I have spent a fair amount of my career watching brilliant engineers ship the wrong thing. Not because they were careless, and not because they lacked the...
Every engineering organization I have worked in has a quiet, expensive problem hiding in plain sight: the calendar. Meetings accrete like sediment. A standup...
Code review has been one of the quiet constants of software engineering for most of my career. The mechanics changed over the years, from emailed patches to...
For years I treated delegation as something that happened automatically once I had enough people. Hire competent engineers, point them at problems, and the...
Every engineering leader I know can recite the headline statistic about context switching: it takes something like twenty-three minutes to fully recover focus...
The daily standup is the most cargo-culted ritual in modern software teams. Somewhere along the way we decided that standing in a circle, going around the...
AI code review tools have gone from novelty to default in about eighteen months. We adopted them, they genuinely help, and they have also quietly created a set...