Delivering on an architecture strategy | Pete Hodgson
Achieving sustained architectural progress at scale takes a clearly articulated strategy, a strong product/tech partnership, and empowered teams.| Pete Hodgson
Achieving sustained architectural progress at scale takes a clearly articulated strategy, a strong product/tech partnership, and empowered teams.| Pete Hodgson
This post challenges misconceptions about chaotic on-call and livesite practices, offering lessons from extensive experience. It introduces common red flags like call hell, hero worship, and the wi…| CodeKraft
The Cow and Chicken are journeying through the countryside and see a diner with a sign that reads “Steak and Eggs”. The chicken nudges the cow and cackles delightfully: “Look! Loo…| CodeKraft
This article clarifies how promotions work and highlights potential pitfalls. It describes a career-growth framework based on technical skills, interpersonal relationships, and influence. As one be…| CodeKraft
Leading an underfunded team is a challenge most managers will face over their careers. This blog post provides techniques and a framework for delivering impact under such conditions.| CodeKraft
Measuring a manager’s impact is hard since outcomes take time. The manager takes full responsibility for the team – be it stagnation, execution woes, poor collaboration, churn, or a lac…| CodeKraft
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.| Dan McKinley :: Math, Programming, and Minority Reports
This post offers three tips for leading teams going through a difficult period. It could be attrition, product changes, reorgs, uncertainty, etc. It is a playbook of 3 key things to keep in mind an…| CodeKraft
Most teams struggle with removing friction because they concentrate on surface-level reactionary fixes instead of addressing the fundamental causes of inefficiency.| CodeKraft
When most teams complain about poor quality, they usually mean reliability woes; however, quality spans a more extensive spectrum and can mean many things. If you complain about your software being…| CodeKraft
