
Engineering management insights that actually work: team building, technical decisions, and work-life balance from the trenches.
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When should engineering teams build software in-house vs buy it? A practical framework with real case studies, including one that breaks the rules.
This one comes from a reader content request. If you’re stuck on a decision in your enginee...
Pretending you reviewed the code is worse than admitting you didn’t.
I stopped writing production code a few years back. Somewhere in that stretch, I ended up managing engineers who are sharper than I’ll ever be again on the technical side...
Open three initiatives at once, and surely one of them lands sooner. That’s the logic I ran on for years, and I still catch myself falling back into it.
It doesn’t. Run the math, and sequential almost always wins.
But here’s the twist nob...
The GitLab metrics I track for every engineer, why none of them mean anything alone, and how I automated data collection into a daily Slack report.
Every conversation I have with another engineering manager about underperformance eventuall...
A few years back I was running a large pharma project. Big budget, serious timeline, and every two weeks I had to present status to the full executive team.
I was tracking everything. Medians, averages, Monte Carlo simulations, critical pa...
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