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👂One-on-ones
One-on-ones are dedicated times in a manager’s schedule for direct reports to talk about anything BUT current projects.
Daniel Jarjoura
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🧩 Organisational Design
Organisational Design is the process of creating team structures, communication channels and processes to generate the desired output most efficiently.
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The Five Dysfunctions of the Product and Engineering Relationship
The relationship between product and engineering teams is like any relationship. It starts lovely, and then, as time goes by, it becomes more complicated if you don't put in the work and keep aligning everyone
Management cases
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I cannot work with my CPO
What should a startup CTO do when the new CPO wants to adopt formal rituals and processes
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A Standard of Performance for Engineering Teams
How American Football coach, Bill Walsh, Standard of Performance can be applied to engineering teams
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Too many bugs
A startup CTO who always prioritised building new features over bug fixing, now faces angry colleagues and customers since they accumulated too much technical debt
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OKRs and Roadmaps
How to create OKRs independently of the product roadmap in engineering teams
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The Sunk "Code" Fallacy
How software engineering can avoid the Sunk Cost Fallacy, and stop projects even if they're already invested in them