Along with slow technical migrations, I believe reorganizations are the second largest activity which cause quickly growing companies to slow down. Here is a framework for running an engineering reorg effectively.| lethain.com
Building on the framework in “Designations, levels and calibrations”, I wanted to discuss a number of special topics related to designing and running performance systems. These topics are particularly interesting to me because they tend to be the emergent, accidental properties that emerge from common performance management systems and behaviors. Because they’re accidental, they surprise many managers early in their careers, and surprise is the cardinal sin of performance management.| lethain.com
Most companies believe they are constrained by funding, product market fit or hiring. Books have been written about each of those, and this will be a foray into hiring. In particular, it’ll be a look at how to use the fundamental hiring diagnostic tool: the hiring funnel.| lethain.com