Magnitudes of exploration. | Irrational Exuberance
lethain.com/magnitudes-of-exploration/Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.
It’s Time to Fight for a Dual Product Management Career Path - Bring the Donuts Newsletter
newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/p/dual-product-management-career-pathCompanies should embrace multitrack job ladders for product managers who prefer product leadership to people management
Always be quitting - jmmv.dev
jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.htmlA good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | Jun, 2021 | Medium
skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29fFor varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.
HRIS Employee Management Software | Humaans
humaans.io/The fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. Mobile first, perfect for remote and distributed teams, and takes 1 minute to get up and running.
Staying on the path to high performing teams. | Irrational Exuberance
lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/As a caveat, the system fix is to hire net-new people, increasing the overall capacity of the company. Sometimes folks instead attempt to capture more resources from existing company, and I’m pretty negative on that. People are not fungible, and generally folks end up in useful places, so I’m skeptical of reassigning existing folks to drive optimality. By nature, it’s also impossible for this kind of discussion to not become political, even when everyone involved has deep trust and r...
Competitive Analysis For Product Engineers | Stay SaaSy
staysaasy.com/product/2021/05/02/competition.htmlIn my experience, most professional software engineers in industry have little to no experience doing competitive analysis. That’s a shame, because competitive analysis is one of the most useful skills that an engineer can have.
Maslow's pyramid of code review | dein.fr
dein.fr/2015-02-18-maslows-pyramid-of-code-review.htmlMaslow's pyramid can help us think about what great code reviews look like.
If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work
hbr.org/2016/12/if-your-boss-could-do-your-job-youre-more-likely-to-be-happy-at-workTechnical competence matters for managers.
How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects
howtodeal.dev/Software is easy. People are hard.
Know your “One Job”, continued – charity.wtf
charity.wtf/2021/03/09/know-your-one-job-continued/Holy macaroni batman, I was not expecting that post to ignite a shitstorm. It felt like a pretty straightforward observation: you were hired to do a job, you should do your best to do that job. Interestingly, the response was almost universally positive for the first 8 hours or so. But then the tide began…
What does sponsorship look like? | Lara Hogan
larahogan.me/blog/what-sponsorship-looks-like/Illustration by Catt Small
Things your manager might not know
jvns.ca/blog/things-your-manager-might-not-know/Things your manager might not know
Hello Kinopio – Kinopio
kinopio.club/Kinopio is the visual thinking tool for new ideas and hard problems.
The Focus to Say No
fs.blog/2011/09/steve-jobs-saying-no/Confusing speed and velocity causes trouble. When you say yes to something it should move you closer to your destination. Sometimes we say yes to things that just move us in a circle — we work hard but we don’t get anywhere.