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2026

The trendy leadership trend that is trendingoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
The executive looporiginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Yes you can measure engineeringoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2026
How to think about span of controloriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
Written culture is higher leverageoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
How to reason about reliability riskoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
Should QA existoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Adding innovation labsoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
First agree on the tradeoffsoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026

2025

Calendar rules I learned from an EAoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2025
Some AI surprises in late 2025original ↗
28 Sept 2025
Getting out of thrash modeoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
Reducing dependenciesoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2025
Some shoulds for strategyoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2025
Don't make your engineering team commitoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
Piles point out your problems aka why your AI coding is slowing things downoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2025
The Campsite Ruleoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2025
Reflecting power - using power you don't haveoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2025
Product management resourcesoriginal ↗
21 May 2025
How to develop a sixth sense for the long-termoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2025
Task Forces can solve (some of) your cross-functional challengesoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2025
Reliability is all stick, no carrotoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
Your team may need a Hero Rotationoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2025

2024

Massively multiplayer retrospectivesoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2024
Tiny Thursdaysoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2024
Why and how to do skip level 1-1soriginal ↗
30 Sept 2024
Don't repeat incidentsoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2024
How to avoid being a bottleneck leaderoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2024
Organizational work and the second joboriginal ↗
9 Jul 2024
Macho leadership and bro cultureoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2024
Managing a bottleneck teamoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2024
The danger of fan out workoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
Strategy pitfalls (on the Level Up podcast)original ↗
29 May 2024
Evil staging and gauntlet programs, tools to increase your software reliabilityoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2024
The dangers of unreliable platforms (on the SRE Path podcast)original ↗
18 Mar 2024
Velocity role 4 - the Nowistoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2024
Velocity role 3 - the Dodgeroriginal ↗
24 Jan 2024
Velocity role 2 - the Moleoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2024
Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionistoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2024

2023

Group leadership coachingoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2023
Organizational danger zonesoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2023
The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineersoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2023
Tactical advice for building effective eng teams, anti-patterns to avoid (Snack bites podcast)original ↗
9 Aug 2023
A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your timeoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2023
Curious about becoming an executive consultant?original ↗
4 May 2023
The ultimate playbook for hiring engineering managers - a step-by-step guideoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2023
The secret to holding a candidate review meeting that isn't boring as helloriginal ↗
10 Apr 2023
How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrainoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2023
Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineeroriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience reportoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2023
A history of Mini-Msoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2023
High trust and low trust organizationsoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2023
Advice for new directorsoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2023
What tools to use for an engineering handbookoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2023
Your process should be open sourceoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2023
Variations for Mini-M management support groupsoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2023
How to implement Mini-M support groupsoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2023
Uplevel your managers with Mini-M support groupsoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2023
Books on managementoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2023
Implementing software engineering levels (with fully-usable examples)original ↗
11 Jan 2023
Leaders make their own problemsoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2023

2022

A weekly project plan you will want to frameoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2022
How to not screw up your product strategyoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2022
Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?original ↗
26 Sept 2022
If you want to be a terrible manager, focus on being a shit shieldoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manageroriginal ↗
1 Jul 2022
Can this ownership exercise improve how you work with others?original ↗
10 Jun 2022
What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?original ↗
9 May 2022
Make changes that people will embraceoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2022
Use these tips to improve your executive presenceoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2022
How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Modeloriginal ↗
21 Jan 2022

2021

Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projectsoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2021
Using a DSLR for video conferencingoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2021
Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?original ↗
17 Nov 2021
Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor modeloriginal ↗
6 Nov 2021
Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embeddingoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2021
Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?original ↗
7 Oct 2021
Liaison - the spy you'll love to send to other teamsoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2021
Don’t use goal frameworks to manage projectsoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2021
Scale platform teams with the best approach for platform teams - self-serviceoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2021
Beware the service provider model - a recipe for engineering team failureoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2021
No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-makingoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2021
Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well togetheroriginal ↗
11 Sept 2021
How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)original ↗
25 Aug 2021
Bundled hiring to double the effectiveness of your hiring processoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2021
Write compelling and unbiased job descriptionsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2021
Use a candidate packet to improve your interview processoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2021
Rethink your hiring strategy to stand out and delight the best candidatesoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2021
Your hiring process is too slow -- speed it up with these five tipsoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2021
Wonderful hiring practices that for some reason aren't more commonoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2021
Exploration and exploitation in technical standardsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2021
Everyone lies to leadersoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2021
Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversityoriginal ↗
24 May 2021
Unusual tips to keep Slack from becoming a nightmareoriginal ↗
11 May 2021
How to refactor meetings as they grow with the rule of eightoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2021
Glue your happy brains together with shared stateoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2021
Use OKRs to drive equityoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2021
Demo-driven developmentoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2021
Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patternsoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2021
Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospectiveoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021
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