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A brief reflection on the pitfalls of equating busyness with productivity, especially in Agile environments.
Information overload, lossy models, telephone games, the lure of loops, pretty-but-mostly-worthless cascades, and the quest for a single roadmap view to rule them all.
A concise guide outlining a repeatable five-step approach to creating an engineering strategy, covering exploration, diagnosis, refinement, policy, and operations.
This guide explains how to create a compelling leadership-focused CV, highlighting key sections and strategies to showcase managerial experience.
An overview of top tools that can replace GitHub's pull request review features, highlighting their strengths and use cases.
What Apple TV+'s Severance tells us about work.
The article explains why modern software architecture and the rise of AI require stronger modular boundaries, urging technical leaders to adopt modular design principles.
The Technology Radar is an opinionated guide to today's technology landscape. Read the latest here.
What exactly is a fractional CTO and how do you become one? Learn all the details you need to know about fractional CTOs from the experts at 7CTOs.
Leading a remote or hybrid team requires a different mindset than when everyone works together in the same physical space.
A playbook for everyone to lead a work package - not just product managers.
A concise guide outlining ten practical rules for negotiating job offers, emphasizing actionable advice for tech professionals.
Interview processes are changing in a tech market that is both cooling and heating up at the same time.
Words matter. The article explains how vague language from managers can cause confusion and offers practical ways to communicate more precisely.
10 Ways to Take Ownership of Your Time
Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with downsides, and using an appropriate decision framework.
A concise overview of a three-bucket framework that helps technical leaders structure their day for greater productivity and fulfillment.
This article describes how loveholidays tackled alert fatigue during its busiest booking period by redesigning paging and alerting processes.
Ah, the dreaded staff meeting.
An exploration of how AI coding assistants are reshaping software engineers' identity, shifting them from creators to overseers.
This article examines the drawbacks of ad-hoc leadership and presents practical steps to adopt more intentional, consistent leadership practices.
A blog post that extracts leadership lessons from the video game FTL: Faster Than Light, covering resource management, planning, adaptation, failure handling, diversity, and focus for technical leaders.
An article describing why leaders should lead from the front, how to identify the front line, and how to lead effectively in that position.
A concise guide describing three core values that help leaders build successful organizations and how to apply them.
The article argues that objectivity in strategy is a myth and emphasizes the importance of subjectivity, judgment, and context in strategic decision-making for leaders.
An article comparing popular prioritization techniques, outlining their pros and cons.
Amplify your impact by managing dependencies and working well with others - whether in-person or remote
One thing we keep learning - usually the hard way - is that you can't plan uncertainty away. Plans work when you're dealing with what is known, what you can control.
The article provides practical advice for engineering leaders on how to adopt decentralized architecture, focusing on team organization, governance, and process alignment to improve scalability and decision making.
The author reflects on transitioning away from hands-on coding as they adopt agentic AI tools, sharing experiences and insights on how AI-driven workflows impact software development.
A brief article that explains how successful technical leadership relies on mutual collaboration and partnership, using the metaphor of a tango dance.
This article offers practical strategies for remote workers to establish personal boundaries, helping them stay productive and maintain well-being while working from home.
How can leaders manage effectively at scale? Thoughtworker Mark Copeland offers his perspective.
The article examines how a low-maintenance attitude can create hidden costs at work, exploring emotional trade-offs and its impact on collaboration.
What does it mean to get into management in 2025? What is expected of you now compared to the last ten years?
A guide on how to run large meetings effectively.
Every founder hires a brilliant jerk. They start as a dream hire, then turn into a cultural liability. The article offers a structured approach to fix the issue by shifting focus from personality to processes.
Career pivots aren't setbacks; they're steps to success. Here's how career zigzags shaped my growth.
A practical strategy for engineering leaders to adopt AI-assisted coding, balancing experimentation, adoption, and impact while keeping teams aligned and supported.
This AWS Enterprise Strategy blog post quantifies how improving developer experience (DevEx) delivered a 15.9% increase in business value, using data-driven metrics and case studies.
This is for managers who want to delegate AND maintain a high bar for quality of work. Here are the 5 tactics I learned over time that made delegating easier.
"Elena, what should I do when I start a new job?"
A short guide on how technical leaders can take ownership of outcomes and drive their teams toward measurable results.
A short guide on how to choose effective software team names to avoid mission creep and routing inefficiencies.
A reflective piece on how unexpected coincidences can influence management decisions and leadership perspective.
A concise review of the book Decisive, highlighting its decision-making framework for leaders and engineers.
The article explores the dangerous leadership pattern of control and provides practical advice for technical leaders to avoid slipping into an authoritarian spiral.
An exploration of AI, education, and the future of thinking, examining how machines impact learning and what skills the next generation needs.
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.