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According to research, downsizing is not the silver bullet for saving a company. It's more like shooting yourself in the foot. Let's explore.
Find out how the product owner and the product manager roles differ and what they have in common.
An article examining how designers use deceptive UI techniques, the growing public awareness of dark patterns, and the responsibilities engineers and leaders have to prevent them.
A LinkedIn post explaining how leaders can recognize and address false consensus in meetings, with practical steps to ensure genuine decision making.
An article offering guidance for leaders on supporting teams during challenging periods.
The article explores how curiosity can help technical leaders and teams become more self-aware during conflict, offering practical strategies to improve collaboration and decision-making.
Studies have shown how we are - and are not - good at estimation, and what can be done to improve our accuracy.
The article shares practical advice on how technical leaders can simplify explanations and align with non-technical stakeholders to improve communication and decision-making.
The article examines how hiring decisions can be influenced by the difference between perception and perspective, highlighting the importance of looking beyond surface impressions when evaluating technical candidates.
New to engineering management? This guide offers 10 actionable leadership tips on 1-on-1s, feedback, and adopting a growth mindset to succeed.
The founder's guide to building and leading teams from 0 to 1,000.
A brief discussion on maintaining resilience and effective leadership when faced with challenging situations.
A LinkedIn post explains how letting staff make their own decisions boosts learning and motivation, using a parenting analogy and insights from Ackoff and Kohn.
A concise collection of unconventional advice for technical leaders on how to effectively manage up and influence their managers.
The article examines how the modern focus on productivity tools and AI leads to burnout and paradoxically reduces actual efficiency, highlighting the need for strategic rest and mindful work habits.
Sadness is leadership's dark secret, illustrated by figures like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. The article offers 10 practical ways to manage this weight of caring more than others.
A short guide on how to measure software engineering performance by focusing on system-level outcomes rather than individual output.
The article discusses how engineering leaders can measure the impact of their teams, contrasting common productivity metrics with business-focused impact measures and providing examples from companies like Amazon, Square, Gusto, and Uber.
A practical guide offering strategies and habits to boost software developer productivity for technical leaders.
Be very afraid of the conversations on the tough topics of performance, improvement, and innovation that aren't taking place.
A blog post that introduces the Coaching Cookie, a simple framework for technical leaders to structure effective coaching conversations.
An extremely belated postmortem for a disastrous process.
A practical guide on designing and conducting behavioral interviews, including preparation, rubric creation, and follow-up strategies.
The author shares personal leadership mistakes such as ignoring intuition, falling into data-driven theater, and overlooking the core responsibilities of a business leader.
A curated list of hard-earned operations lessons covering monitoring, incident response, tooling, and cultural insights for technical leaders.
In this episode of Real Life Leadership we discuss practical strategies for onboarding new hires and making their first days memorable.
An exploration of why we measure and how measurement can go wrong.
Losing control of your time? Here is how to break free from the chaos, prioritise and get stuff done.
What I learned from my recent experiment with the Spotify Squad Model, describing how to build and run effective product squads.
An article exploring the practice of self-iterations as a tool for continuous personal and professional improvement.
Developers turned engineering managers often feel unproductive because the feedback loop for managers is much longer and less visible than for developers.
Explores the benefits of breaking work into small slices, using Charles Dickens as a metaphor to illustrate why incremental progress works better than big leaps.
When you search Google for trunk-based development, you often see a provocative headline that suggests it is a "complete crock of shit". This post clears up common misconceptions about trunk-based development and explains why it matters for modern software teams.
JTBD helps understand why a behavior takes place. OKRs help provide determine whether or not the product strategy that emerges from that research is correct.
The AI hype train isnt slowing down, but are we still focusing on the wrong parts of the software development life cycle?
A LinkedIn post sharing a curated collection of free Revolut ebooks, frameworks, templates, and on-demand webinar recordings for building high-performing teams.
With Big Tech in retreat, now is when we see what companies really are market leaders.
Learning about roles you work with can provide a meaningful competitive advantage in the modern tech world.
A quick guide to heartbeat metrics (and why your dashboards won't save you).
This guide outlines behavioral interview strategies for first-time Software Development Manager candidates, focusing on how to demonstrate leadership competencies during the interview process.
When building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.
A blog post that introduces the concept of actualization levers and explains how they can be used to enhance personal and professional growth for technical leaders.
The article explains why psychological safety is essential for high-performing teams and provides practical steps leaders can take to foster it.
We are relatively cautious about what we buy when the stakes are high. But do we apply the same level of scrutiny to the most important investments of our lives – choosing a partner or a career path? Divorce and turnover rates suggest not.
If you've worked in tech, you've probably had some experience with recruiters - even in bear markets most of us get messages from recruiters. Let's talk about how to make the most of these experiences.
Common wisdom says managers should let their reports learn from mistakes, but some errors need to be prevented by leaders.
Strategy is an important and oft-misunderstood concept. Let's explore how a clear understanding can help you keep your team on track.
A guide explaining what a product brief is, why it matters, its key components, and how to create one with real-world examples.
The stdlib collection is a community-curated library of practical, immediately useful, battle-tested resources for technical leadership. Each resource is designed to be immediately applicable to your role. New resources are added based on community feedback and emerging best practices.