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  • Why 5 Whys isn’t enough

    29 Dec 2024

    5 Whys is a prevalent engineering process in a modern tech company. When your company has operational incidents (and even…

  • Convincing or Instructing

    26 Dec 2024

    To convince someone, tell them why, then how, then what, in that order. To give an instruction, tell someone what,…

  • Managing Expectations

    14 Dec 2024

    “This team isn’t delivering enough.” You’ve had a fully funded team of engineers working on a product for years. It…

  • Stop saying Tech Debt

    23 Jul 2023

    If you gave two options to someone who cared about business outcomes, about what they could have, which do you…

  • What are your engineering culture values?

    20 Nov 2022

    Perform an activity frequently enough, and you will start to see patterns. After being involved in the process of creating…

  • Manager README 2021

    20 Jul 2021

    It has been a while since I wrote my first manager README. The idea is simple: help people who are…

  • Manager README

    29 Oct 2018

    The concept of a manager README doc, as an introduction of what to expect from a new manager, has become…

  • Are you joining a good engineering team?

    23 Jul 2017

    You’re unlikely to read a job spec these days that doesn’t contain the word, Agile (capitalised, of course), scrum, kanban,…

  • How much coding should a manager do?

    2 Jul 2017

    In my day job we use Slack as a key communication tool – for those who haven’t used it, it’s…

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