Divided We Stall: When Three Developers Do One Developer's Job
A startup founder recently told me about their hiring plan: one front-end developer, one back-end developer, one DevOps engineer. They had 12 customers and a...
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The Productivity Paradox: How Starting Everything Finishes Nothing
There’s a moment in every engineering team’s life when the kanban board tells the real story. fourteen tickets in progress. Four in done. It’s the kind of ra...
Engineering's Alignment Crisis: When Great Code Creates Zero Business Value
Last month I heard about a SaaS startup. The engineering team spent six months building the perfect API. The architects were thrilled. The code was “beautifu...
Finding Your Bottleneck: The Data-Driven Method for Accelerating Engineering Delivery
I watched a startup CEO stare at his team’s metrics dashboard for ten minutes before turning to me. “We’re doing everything right,” he said. “Agile ceremonie...
The Metrics That Matter: How Outcome-Based Metrics Transform Engineering Teams
I heard a story about a manager walking into a sprint planning meeting years ago to find their lead developer breaking down a simple authentication fix into ...
Release Velocity: How Slow Deployments Kill Engineering Momentum
Discover how slow release cycles destroy team morale, increase technical debt, and what engineering leaders can do to break the deployment bottleneck.