Smooth Transitions: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Learn why your best engineers resist change and how to turn skeptics into champions when implementing new processes, tools, or structures.
Change Management
A collection of 1 Post
Communication
A collection of 1 Post
Bridging the Gap: Communicating Tech Needs to Non-Technical Stakeholders
Learn how to translate complex technical requirements into business value that resonates with executives, clients, and other non-technical stakeholders to gain buy-in for critical engineering initiatives.
Developer Tools
A collection of 1 Post
Build vs. Buy: The Million-Dollar Decision for Engineering Teams
A strategic framework for deciding when to build custom developer tools versus purchasing off-the-shelf solutions, and how this critical decision impacts your engineering velocity and competitive advantage.
Engineering Management
A collection of 7 Posts
Smooth Transitions: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Learn why your best engineers resist change and how to turn skeptics into champions when implementing new processes, tools, or structures.
Meeting Mastery: How Strategic Scheduling Drives Engineering Team Performance
Learn how software development teams can reclaim 40% of their productive time through strategic meeting design, with proven practices from Google, Amazon, and GitLab.
Scale Smart: How Company Strategy Should Drive Your Engineering Headcount
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most engineering leaders are flying blind when it comes to team sizing. GitHub runs with engineering at 37% of total headcou...
Top 5 Engineering Leadership Challenges in 2025
An in-depth analysis of the most pressing challenges facing engineering leaders in 2025, from talent gaps to workflow visibility, with actionable strategies to address each one.
Engineering Performance Health Check: Assess Your Team's Effectiveness
A comprehensive framework to evaluate your engineering team's health across technical excellence, delivery efficiency, and team morale - helping you identify improvement areas and build a more effective organization.
Building the Business Case for a Productivity Audit: How to Get Buy-in from the Top
Learn how to frame engineering productivity audits in terms of ROI and competitive advantage to secure executive support and funding for these critical initiatives.
Delegation Without Abdication: Empowering Engineers While Staying in Control
Learn how engineering leaders can master the art of delegation that empowers team members with real ownership while maintaining appropriate guidance and strategic oversight.
Engineering Productivity
A collection of 1 Post
Tech Debt: The Hidden Drag on Your Product Velocity
Understanding how technical debt silently erodes your engineering productivity, impacts your bottom line, and what strategic approaches can help manage this growing challenge.
Leadership
A collection of 14 Posts
Smooth Transitions: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Learn why your best engineers resist change and how to turn skeptics into champions when implementing new processes, tools, or structures.
Meeting Mastery: How Strategic Scheduling Drives Engineering Team Performance
Learn how software development teams can reclaim 40% of their productive time through strategic meeting design, with proven practices from Google, Amazon, and GitLab.
Scale Smart: How Company Strategy Should Drive Your Engineering Headcount
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most engineering leaders are flying blind when it comes to team sizing. GitHub runs with engineering at 37% of total headcou...
Onboarding Bootcamp: Setting New Developers Up for Success in 30 Days
A structured 30-day onboarding program can transform new developers from confused newcomers to confident contributors. Here's your blueprint for dramatically shortening ramp-up time while boosting retention.
Effective Engineering OKRs: Aligning Tech Goals with Business Outcomes
Learn how to craft engineering OKRs that bridge the gap between technical excellence and business impact. Plus, get practical examples and a template to transform your team's goal-setting approach.
Top 5 Engineering Leadership Challenges in 2025
An in-depth analysis of the most pressing challenges facing engineering leaders in 2025, from talent gaps to workflow visibility, with actionable strategies to address each one.
Project Recovery Mode: Tactics For When Deadlines Slip
Practical strategies to get troubled projects back on track, including reassessing scope, prioritizing features, breaking work into smaller milestones, removing bottlenecks, and building quick wins.
Tech Roadmap to Business Impact: Strategic Planning Frameworks for Engineering Leaders
Discover proven strategic planning frameworks that help engineering leaders align technical initiatives with business outcomes, bridge the execution gap, and deliver measurable impact through effective technology roadmaps.
Bridging the Gap: Communicating Tech Needs to Non-Technical Stakeholders
Learn how to translate complex technical requirements into business value that resonates with executives, clients, and other non-technical stakeholders to gain buy-in for critical engineering initiatives.
Building the Business Case for a Productivity Audit: How to Get Buy-in from the Top
Learn how to frame engineering productivity audits in terms of ROI and competitive advantage to secure executive support and funding for these critical initiatives.
The CTO's Survival Guide: Prioritizing Tech Initiatives in a Growing Startup
Learn how to effectively prioritize competing technical initiatives to align with business goals, manage technical debt, and communicate priorities to stakeholders in fast-growing startup environments.
Delegation Without Abdication: Empowering Engineers While Staying in Control
Learn how engineering leaders can master the art of delegation that empowers team members with real ownership while maintaining appropriate guidance and strategic oversight.
Metrics that Matter: Translating Engineering Performance for the C-Suite
Discover the essential engineering metrics that truly impact business outcomes, how to effectively communicate them to executives, and strategies for aligning technical performance with strategic goals.
Build vs. Buy: The Million-Dollar Decision for Engineering Teams
A strategic framework for deciding when to build custom developer tools versus purchasing off-the-shelf solutions, and how this critical decision impacts your engineering velocity and competitive advantage.
Metrics
A collection of 3 Posts
Effective Engineering OKRs: Aligning Tech Goals with Business Outcomes
Learn how to craft engineering OKRs that bridge the gap between technical excellence and business impact. Plus, get practical examples and a template to transform your team's goal-setting approach.
Engineering Performance Health Check: Assess Your Team's Effectiveness
A comprehensive framework to evaluate your engineering team's health across technical excellence, delivery efficiency, and team morale - helping you identify improvement areas and build a more effective organization.
Metrics that Matter: Translating Engineering Performance for the C-Suite
Discover the essential engineering metrics that truly impact business outcomes, how to effectively communicate them to executives, and strategies for aligning technical performance with strategic goals.
Process Optimization
A collection of 4 Posts
Project Recovery Mode: Tactics For When Deadlines Slip
Practical strategies to get troubled projects back on track, including reassessing scope, prioritizing features, breaking work into smaller milestones, removing bottlenecks, and building quick wins.
Tech Roadmap to Business Impact: Strategic Planning Frameworks for Engineering Leaders
Discover proven strategic planning frameworks that help engineering leaders align technical initiatives with business outcomes, bridge the execution gap, and deliver measurable impact through effective technology roadmaps.
Cost of Delay: How Slow Releases Hurt Your Bottom Line
Learn how delayed software releases impact revenue, competitive position, and customer satisfaction. Discover proven strategies to quantify and minimize the cost of delay in your engineering organization.
Tech Debt: The Hidden Drag on Your Product Velocity
Understanding how technical debt silently erodes your engineering productivity, impacts your bottom line, and what strategic approaches can help manage this growing challenge.
Productivity
A collection of 2 Posts
Meeting Mastery: How Strategic Scheduling Drives Engineering Team Performance
Learn how software development teams can reclaim 40% of their productive time through strategic meeting design, with proven practices from Google, Amazon, and GitLab.
Building the Business Case for a Productivity Audit: How to Get Buy-in from the Top
Learn how to frame engineering productivity audits in terms of ROI and competitive advantage to secure executive support and funding for these critical initiatives.
Release Management
A collection of 1 Post
Cost of Delay: How Slow Releases Hurt Your Bottom Line
Learn how delayed software releases impact revenue, competitive position, and customer satisfaction. Discover proven strategies to quantify and minimize the cost of delay in your engineering organization.
Strategic Planning
A collection of 5 Posts
Scale Smart: How Company Strategy Should Drive Your Engineering Headcount
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most engineering leaders are flying blind when it comes to team sizing. GitHub runs with engineering at 37% of total headcou...
Tech Roadmap to Business Impact: Strategic Planning Frameworks for Engineering Leaders
Discover proven strategic planning frameworks that help engineering leaders align technical initiatives with business outcomes, bridge the execution gap, and deliver measurable impact through effective technology roadmaps.
The CTO's Survival Guide: Prioritizing Tech Initiatives in a Growing Startup
Learn how to effectively prioritize competing technical initiatives to align with business goals, manage technical debt, and communicate priorities to stakeholders in fast-growing startup environments.
Metrics that Matter: Translating Engineering Performance for the C-Suite
Discover the essential engineering metrics that truly impact business outcomes, how to effectively communicate them to executives, and strategies for aligning technical performance with strategic goals.
Build vs. Buy: The Million-Dollar Decision for Engineering Teams
A strategic framework for deciding when to build custom developer tools versus purchasing off-the-shelf solutions, and how this critical decision impacts your engineering velocity and competitive advantage.
Team Development
A collection of 1 Post
Delegation Without Abdication: Empowering Engineers While Staying in Control
Learn how engineering leaders can master the art of delegation that empowers team members with real ownership while maintaining appropriate guidance and strategic oversight.
Team Performance
A collection of 9 Posts
Smooth Transitions: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Learn why your best engineers resist change and how to turn skeptics into champions when implementing new processes, tools, or structures.
Meeting Mastery: How Strategic Scheduling Drives Engineering Team Performance
Learn how software development teams can reclaim 40% of their productive time through strategic meeting design, with proven practices from Google, Amazon, and GitLab.
Scale Smart: How Company Strategy Should Drive Your Engineering Headcount
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most engineering leaders are flying blind when it comes to team sizing. GitHub runs with engineering at 37% of total headcou...
Onboarding Bootcamp: Setting New Developers Up for Success in 30 Days
A structured 30-day onboarding program can transform new developers from confused newcomers to confident contributors. Here's your blueprint for dramatically shortening ramp-up time while boosting retention.
Top 5 Engineering Leadership Challenges in 2025
An in-depth analysis of the most pressing challenges facing engineering leaders in 2025, from talent gaps to workflow visibility, with actionable strategies to address each one.
Project Recovery Mode: Tactics For When Deadlines Slip
Practical strategies to get troubled projects back on track, including reassessing scope, prioritizing features, breaking work into smaller milestones, removing bottlenecks, and building quick wins.
Engineering Performance Health Check: Assess Your Team's Effectiveness
A comprehensive framework to evaluate your engineering team's health across technical excellence, delivery efficiency, and team morale - helping you identify improvement areas and build a more effective organization.
Cost of Delay: How Slow Releases Hurt Your Bottom Line
Learn how delayed software releases impact revenue, competitive position, and customer satisfaction. Discover proven strategies to quantify and minimize the cost of delay in your engineering organization.
Metrics that Matter: Translating Engineering Performance for the C-Suite
Discover the essential engineering metrics that truly impact business outcomes, how to effectively communicate them to executives, and strategies for aligning technical performance with strategic goals.
Technical Debt
A collection of 1 Post
Tech Debt: The Hidden Drag on Your Product Velocity
Understanding how technical debt silently erodes your engineering productivity, impacts your bottom line, and what strategic approaches can help manage this growing challenge.