Articles Key Insights for Engineering Leaders from DORA research Google recently released its annual "Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023" (link). This research, now in its ninth year, helps engineering teams understand their performance and its impact on the organizations. According to The LeadDev Engineering Team Performance Report 2023 (link), half of the respondents familiar with DORA metrics find
Articles How to retain departing employee When a direct report considers departing One significant challenge for engineering leaders is handling the potential exit of a key team member. This article, the second in a series, discusses strategies for managing such situations. The series: * How to handle employee departure * How to retain departing employee - this article
One bites A crisis is an opportunity for change Many engineering leaders faced resistance to change during stable, business-as-usual times. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" - doesn't it sound familiar? In regular, "chill" times, people usually don't see why they should change their ways. They're comfortable with how things are and might be scared to try something
Articles How to handle employee departure When your direct report is leaving One of the challenging situations for an engineering leader is facing the departure of a direct report. We often believe that our team will remain constant, so when we receive such news, it usually hits hard. This article, the first in a series, discusses
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Articles What Engineering Leader Can Learn from Product Model at Spotify? Marty Cagan and the SVPG group strongly advocate for software engineers to be an essential component of product teams. "The role of technology in a product company is to solve customers' problems." This sentiment is echoed frequently in Cagan's "Inspired" and "Empowered" books and is reiterated here in Practical Engineering
One bites Lightweight RFC Empowering teams means giving everyone a chance to contribute to collective decisions. One of the practical solutions here is the RFC (Request For Comment) document. RFC helps with collaborative and asynchronous decision-making. This document is usually kicked off by engineers or engineering leaders who want to introduce a change in
Articles Top Ten Factors of Developers' Productivity Increasing the productivity of software engineering teams can be a challenging task. Sometimes, it's hard to decide what you should focus on. Technicalities, like better tools, processes, or tech stack? Or human-related factors, like relationships within the team, psychological safety, or candor feedback. Here, you will find some ideas on
Articles Technical debt - what it is and how to deal with it Recently, I was interviewed for the podcast "Beyond The Code", hosted by Kovid Batra (thanks for having me!). The main subject we covered was technical debt. We could easily write the entire book about tech debt, but for the sake of the interview, I tried to come up with the
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