Why Early Releases Often Fail in Multi-Team Organizations
It all starts with one simple question from the business side: "Can we ship this early?"
Archive for the category: Engineering Management
Make Honesty Less Risky Than Silence for Your Engineering Team
Your team may already know the risk. The question is whether they feel safe saying it.
Why Good Architecture Still Fails in Production
At Devoxx UK in London, I caught up with Eoin Woods - co-author of three software architecture books and former CTO of Endava, to find out why beautifully designed systems still break in production.
CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt
At a CTO Craft Dinner in Toronto, I sat down with engineering leaders from more than a dozen tech companies and asked where AI has actually landed. The free-for-all is over and we need to be realistic.
Engineering Leaders, You Should Be Worried If Your Team Isn’t Pushing Back
There is a gap most engineering leaders prefer not to explore: the distance between the clarity they believe they're projecting and the confusion their teams actually experience.
Don’t Hire Juniors to Write Code, Hire Them to Become Seniors
The case for cutting junior engineers looks airtight at the CFO level, but wrong from every other perspective.
No engineering productivity gains, and no jobs lost due to AI
Yet, 90% of engineering leaders investment in AI tools is their priority.
How not to waste a senior engineering hire
So you’ve managed to hire a senior engineer. Phew, they should start doing their magic now, right?
This is how to boost Product and Engineering collaboration
Why do new features sometimes take so long to release? Are delays due to inefficiencies in development, or are there more complex factors involved?
Healthy Performance Management for Engineers? It’s Possible!
Performance management for engineers often carries the label of a necessary evil. Anton Kazakov offers a fresh way to approach it.