How do you get a brand new team to become productive within three months? This post describes the lessons and techniques from rapidly ramping up these teams. These tips should help new members beco…| CodeKraft
A bit of inspiration (and some hopefully actionable advice) for folks who are still working at day jobs.| training.kalzumeus.com
Introduction “How can I trust you? You keep telling me about a new direction every other month” My report after the 3rd organizational pivot within three months. Background I was dumbs…| CodeKraft
What if I told you there was a way to overcome that sinking feeling associated with delivering feedback? Yes! You can learn to deliver great feedback with deliberate practice. Read on to learn some…| 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
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
This article relates hard-learned lessons as a newbie engineering manager. It targets new leads by clarifying leadership pitfalls to avoid.| 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
The issue with systems that do not ‘fail’ is that they have no fixes when they eventually fail.| CodeKraft
