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Published a piece of engineering success and DORA metrics. Check it out.

With remote work’s flexible schedules and asynchronous communication, managers need to be especially thoughtful when scheduling meetings, while makers need to be even more proactive in protecting t...

For engineering organizations, knowing the difference between graphite and kryptonite can be the key to protecting long-term innovation. What's your graphite?

Context switching comes with a high cost... “Similar to computers, the human brain needs time to adjust focus from one task to another. It must unload and reload context—costing developers energy a...

"Engineering teams should measure documentation not by its density or vastness, but by how easily readers can jump in and get out with everything they need, and less of what they don’t." Here's a f...

On work-life balance... “Ignoring work-life balance can create innovation zombies—companies that overwork their employees to increase output, but ultimately sabotage their organization’s ability to...

Why does trunk-based development matter for high-performing engineering organizations? “Teams adopting trunk-based development can increase their velocity, code quality, and overall throughput by e...

I published a new blog post about time lost to short, but frequent, workflows. “Managers and developers should be more ruthless in analyzing and dissecting their micro-feedback loops. They consume ...