Engineering Productivity: Measure What Matters
July 26, 2020
Measuring engineering productivity should be focused on outcomes and not outputs. This article provides a few ideas on how to go about it on the company, team and individual levels.
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August 31, 2021
A quick overview on how to set up on-call rotations, on-call playbooks, as well as how to handle incident response and post-mortems.
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March 16, 2021
Team charters are living documents that align team members to a common goal, and inform the organization where they can be most effective.
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October 24, 2020
This article is an attempt in providing a framework for engineering and product teams to reduce the inherent friction and the time required to complete planning cycles.
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November 2, 2020
Transitioning from a software engineering position to a managerial one can be quite a leap. This article offers a few practical tips you can follow to help new engineering managers succeed.
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October 28, 2020
Employee Pulse or Satisfaction Survey gives you some metrics on how your organization does in certain areas. To make improvements, you have to dig deeper and get to the truth behind these numbers.
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October 19, 2020
There seems to be a growing trend in technology--and in all aspects of our lives, really--to measure everything: business outcomes, organizational success, and individual performance. But does it improve our lives?
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October 5, 2020
Ted Lasso is one series we all need in 2020. It reminds us that kindness, being nice to each other, can make a difference and what good leadership is like
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January 7, 2020
With Vidal Graupera, we've dived into engineering managment, and my background in it.
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November 17, 2020
As software engineers, the goal is always to improve the quality of the software we help develop, especially if other engineers are depending on this quality to complete their own projects. However, these improvements come with a price.
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October 3, 2023
Generative AI in Support of Developer Experience
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March 22, 2023
A quick and fun exploration into what ChatGPT thinks about managing humans
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January 11, 2019
Lessons learned from working on Base Web, Uber's new extensible design system architecture
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February 8, 2018
With Docker and Kubernetes Go got quite some traction - it’s time to learn it!
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