This post delves into crucial challenges at each product maturity phase. Senior engineering managers and high-level executives will benefit significantly from examining their portfolios and applyin…| 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
My last manager commended my rapid ramp-up and steady progress throughout my onboarding phase. I chuckled silently – if only he knew my many mistakes in my past 6 attempts. This post shares s…| CodeKraft
In this series of short stories, I share tricky situations I’ve encountered while leading teams. These experiences have taught me invaluable leadership lessons and greatly influenced my manag…| CodeKraft
One of my favorite technical projects involved overcoming a network constraint. The virtual machines (VMs) hosting the core services kept exhausting available ports. Once all ports were used up, ne…| 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
Leaders (managers, directors, VPs, etc.) should read this book if they want to create teams that execute predictably; the book also covers culture and other subtle elements that make teams work eff…| CodeKraft
Most teams struggle with removing friction because they concentrate on surface-level reactionary fixes instead of addressing the fundamental causes of inefficiency.| CodeKraft
The story of the most challenging stretch of my career so far and how I acquired years of leadership experience within months.| CodeKraft
