A project orientation robs your engineers of Pride of Workmanship
Good leaders enable engineers to feel pride in their work to deliver differentiating results
Good leaders enable engineers to feel pride in their work to deliver differentiating results
Feelings are an important part of engineering. But they don’t replace automated tests.
Most developers shouldn’t know or care about the database technologies.
Turn releases into something for Marketing, not Engineering
Trying to close more tickets “doesn’t scale”
If management wants different outcomes, only they can change the system.
Known or unknown, the thing about technical debt that leadership needs to understand.
Agile is not to control, measure, or micromanage teams.