Manager Offboarding
When a manager tells you that they are leaving the organization, you will usually have two to four weeks to do their offboarding.
You have little time to prepare a plan, communicate it
Matias Lespiau
Unblocking group decisions
The internet is full of articles telling you why you should avoid paralysis by
decision. Companies obsess on this problem and create core values such as "bias
towards action" to battle it.
But
The 3 mindsets required to consistently improve software engineering team velocity
As a VP of Engineering, I work with 30+ software engineering teams, and from
time to time, we work in troubleshooting their velocity problems. I've recently
written about why most attempts to improve
The reason why most attempts to increase velocity fail (and how to fix it)
Improving a development team's velocity is no easy task for a leader.
In 2015, I led a team that was taking a long time to build new features, but it
was tough to
2 things successful teams do to spend less time doing reviews and increase their velocity (but you have to do both to reap the value)
There is a vicious cycle in software development between doing large changes and
slow feedback loops.
When the feedback loop is slow, people will batch more changes together, and
when the batch is