Architecting Beyond Code
It isn't just code that needs architecting. Every piece of text produced by your org executes on human wetware. It is code. And it needs to be treated like code.
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Teams Without Managers
A team without managers sounds like a ridiculous idea, but it's actually worth trying out just to see how much of management is 'real' and how much is just fear of shadows.
In this post, Swanand Pagnis, CTO of co-learn, explores what it might take to get there.
Managing Without Managers
Anarchy - I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Hammer Time!
The Quality Muscle
Use it or lose it
Who is responsible for the quality of the output of your engineering org? If you answered "QA" then you're either a QA or you really need to read the rest of this article.
Quality, like reliability, is such a cross-cutting concern that it has to
Narratives - Part 1
Stories are extremely influential, they are innate to humans and humans derive their model of the world from stories. And this is true of orgs as well — your organisation is telling itself stories in order to make sense of itself.
The Power of Stories
The Ladder of Power
This is going to be a short post because the concept is quite simple, and yet quite powerful. When it comes to Politics, simple paying attention to the subtle forces that shape our world can be a game changer
If you haven’t already, please read my post on managing
Devs don't care about business!!
Talking to an entrepreneur friend of mine last night and he was complaining about the fact that given a choice, devs will choose to work on the more technically challenging thing than on the thing that makes the most business impact.
Here’s what I told him.
PMs are from Saturn, EMs are from Jupiter
the uncrossable chasms - Part 1
Agile for Real People
Why be Political?
Politics For Nerds - Episode 2
What is Politics?
Politics for Nerds - Episode 1
Politics for Nerds
Oh, you're not political are you?
Interesting Times
Welcome to the Global Financial System, young Paduan
The Clean Up Sprint
How to ship broken stuff with confidence
How to hire a kickass team
May the vibe be with you!
Everything I know about introducing TDD in an org
Hopefully you’ve read part one of this series where I talk about why one should do TDD. Teaching TDD is kind of out of scope here but at some point I will compile a list of the best resources on the web to come up the curve. The rest
Everything I know about TDD
Part 1
Be Careful Of Your Issue Tracker
It becomes your code.
Engineering Management Metrics
Everything that can be measured is not worth measuring.
Don't Get Eaten
Managing your career in software product development
Risk Management
All management is the management of risk
Outside-in Thinking
Or 'How to Actually Finish Projects'
How to Not Be A Micro-Manager - Part 2
Blast Radius FTW
How To Not Be A Micro Manager - Part 1
These 2 weird tricks will set you and your team free!
Building a Learning Organisation
Question from a Product Engineering leader at a fast growing start up
How do you provide learning and growth for engineers in the absence of a solid technical leader in the org?
First of all, congratulations on asking the question. This is a step many never take and the fact
The Engineering Organisation
Welcome to The Engineering Organisation by me, svs.
The whole concept of how engineering organisations work has been a fascinating revelation for me. The way information flows from being an idea in someone’s head to getting delivered to users in a real live product is as fascinating as it