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A Framework for Engineering Career Development original ↗

3 Sept 2025

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A Pragmatic Framework for Technical Debt original ↗

16 Feb 2025

2024

Blameless Postmortems: Turning Failures into Learning original ↗

25 Dec 2024

Setting up an on-call roll original ↗

21 Sept 2024

Build vs. Buy original ↗

19 Jun 2024

Establishing 1-1s that Work original ↗

14 Apr 2024

Refactoring a Legacy Codebase original ↗

5 Mar 2024

2023

Decoding the Origins of CAN Reports original ↗

7 Sept 2023

Strategic Approaches for Technical Improvement original ↗

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Crunch Time original ↗

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Improving Software Quality original ↗

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Moving Between Tech Stacks original ↗

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Promoting Technical Excellence in your Organization original ↗

22 Feb 2023

Interesting Articles for Engineering Managers original ↗

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Mentorship Proposal original ↗

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2022

Technical State of the Team - Expanded original ↗

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Project Planning Checklist original ↗

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Running Your Projects original ↗

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Kickoff Doc Expanded original ↗

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So you’ve got yourself a project original ↗

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When to plan a project original ↗

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Define your team's stragetic intent original ↗

29 Jun 2022

Getting Started with your Team: Organize to Learn original ↗

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2021

Managerial Meddling original ↗

22 Dec 2021

What is a manager?original ↗

19 Sept 2021

SMART vs CLEAR goals original ↗

27 Jun 2021

The schedule of an engineering manager original ↗

16 May 2021

Breakdown; post-mortem of a process failure original ↗

18 Feb 2021

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2020

Understanding Velocity in Development Teams original ↗

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Kickoff Docs original ↗

3 Mar 2020

Measuring Backlog Health original ↗

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2019

Pyramid Principle Examples original ↗

11 Nov 2019

Further Engineering Management Classes original ↗

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Project Planning Notes original ↗

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Manager Conference Links original ↗

15 Jan 2019

2018

ElasticSearch Perf - Highlighter Edition original ↗

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Manager READMEs original ↗

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2017

Engineering Management Classes original ↗

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Moment.js instantiation slowness original ↗

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2016

Performance Improvement via node 4 to node 6 original ↗

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Node 4 and Babel 6 in Harmony original ↗

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2015

Guide to upgrading from Babel 5 => 6 original ↗

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15 Feb 2013

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1 Dec 2012

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20 Nov 2012

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1 Nov 2012

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30 Oct 2012

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17 Oct 2012

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15 Sept 2012

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13 Sept 2012

How to install Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity)original ↗

11 Sept 2012

Setting up MongoDB to work with Derby.js original ↗

6 Sept 2012

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1 Sept 2012

Cracking the Coding Interview - JavaScript Min/Max Binary Heap original ↗

29 Aug 2012

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25 Aug 2012

Cracking the Coding Interview - JavaScript Singly Linked List original ↗

24 Aug 2012

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18 Aug 2012

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17 Aug 2012

Derby.js - Working with Views, Models, and Bindings original ↗

7 Aug 2012

HTML5 'formaction' attribute - An easy Modernizr test original ↗

1 Aug 2012

Australian vs US Coffee Terms Comparison original ↗

27 Jul 2012

Derby.js - Playing with Models original ↗

22 Jul 2012

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