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The engineering manager's attention budget

Every Engineering Manager has 5 jobs - most distribute their 100 'attention points' across only 2-3 of them

Dropping sprints: a year with Shape Up

Reflections on moving from scrum to shape up (and from maintenance mode to high output and happier engineers)

Engineering Managers are going to hate OpenClaw

A ChatGPT-like wave of hype is about to hit us, and you should be afraid

Explaining, understanding, and data compression

Why super technical engineers and managers suck at explaining their thoughts

Software engineering calories: what would cal.ai say about your product?

Most teams have no idea what they're putting into their product

The unwritten laws of software engineering

Engineering Management & Fatherhood - Take #2

Don't become an Engineering Manager

Taking just one step too far

The Unreachable Engineering Managers

The Software Games: Endless Grind

7 Slack hacks for engineers and managers

Who does what and how to support them

A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers

5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire

The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates

Shadow work in engineering teams

Give your engineers a kingdom

The price of mandatory code reviews

Engineering velocity on steroids