Which meetings should you cancel, and which should you shorten? How do you force people to review documents and make decisions without meetings?
An opinion column for developers. Brutally honest, no pulled punches.
Which meetings should you cancel, and which should you shorten? How do you force people to review documents and make decisions without meetings?
What impacts real and perceived productivity? How do you make a good team feel and be more productive?
How do you keep email focused? What makes email useful to your whole audience?
How do you best escalate issues? What are the secret words that get your priority raised?
Whats wrong with change by edict? How do you lay out a change roadmap
How do horrible, tragic, and great teams differ? Why isnt tolerance good enough?
How does optimizing around engineer isolation lead to bad products? What makes most team rooms horrible, and how can you fix them?
Can tools solve problems? How do you best handle build breaks?
What is the secret path to productivity? How do accelerate the work that must be done to release?
Why is the production environment unique? How many service environments do you really need?