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 #productivity
8 articles tagged #productivity.
The Underrated Skill of Writing Good Tickets
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...
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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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How AI Is Changing Code Review
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...
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Delegation Is a Skill, Not a Reflex
For years I treated delegation as something that happened automatically once I had enough people. Hire competent engineers, point them at problems, and the...
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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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Why Standups Fail and What to Do Instead
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...
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How We Use AI Code Review Without Letting It Review Us
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...
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