Fern buildwithfern.com

Buildstash buildstash.com

Bucket bucket.co

browserless browserless.io

BoxyHQ Enterprise SSO boxyhq.com

Blackfire.io blackfire.io

Better Stack betterstack.com

Bearer bearer.com

Beam beam.cloud

Bazaarvoice bazaarvoice.com

Baremetrics baremetrics.com

Amazon Q aws.amazon.com

Aserto aserto.com

Applozic applozic.com

APITemplate.io apitemplate.io

Apitable apitable.com

Apify apify.com

Apideck apideck.com

Anymail finder anymailfinder.com

OpenHands all-hands.dev

AirPinpoint airpinpoint.com

Airbrake airbrake.io

AI SDK by Vercel ai-sdk.dev

Adaptable adaptable.io

Actyx actyx.com

Abstra abstra.io

Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout zdnet.com

“Today, CISO jobs come with low budgets, long working hours, a lack of power on executive boards, a diminishing pool of trained professionals they can hire, but also a constant stress of not having done enough to secure the company's infrastructure against cyber-attacks…

How title, money and scope affect your fulfillment x.com

“For talented mid-career folks, when making job changes, how do you rank: 1. Title 2. Money 3. Scope”.

IBM slide from 1979 x.com

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The Atlassian Syndrome x.com

Your organization will end up with Atlassian products because “their business model is: 1. Collect requirement lists from customers and prospective customers; 2. Make sure their product checks every damn box, no matter how stupid.”

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Bryan Cantrill defines that the role of management x.com

“is in constructing that environment, not micromanaging it. If engineering performance is suffering, it's (likely) a management problem: wrong problem, wrong mission, or wrong team -- or all three.”

Advice to new managers x.com

9 fundamental principles of the behavior required to be a great manager.

sacrificial lamb product x.com

a massive unpopular re-architecture required to pave the way for future innovative release. That's the cautionary tale of why you should be ready for intense criticism and adversity, if by chance or fate your wander down the path of monumental changes in a business software.

Devs I really enjoy pairing with x.com

“Don't act like know-it-all; Openly admit if they don't know something; Try to figure stuff out together”.

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Amazon Wants to 'Win at Games.' So Why Hasn't It? wired.com

“Any product manager can go between any business—from groceries to film to games to Kindle. The skillset is interchangeable. They just have to learn the particular market.”

Fizz Buzz Test wiki.c2.com

“Designed to help filter out the 99.5% of programming job candidates who can't seem to program their way out of a wet paper bag.”

Story Points Revisited web.archive.org

The alleged inventor of story points says they are probably a mistake.

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team web.archive.org

“Google's data indicated that psychological safety, more than anything else, was critical to making a team work. (…) The behaviors that create psychological safety — conversational turn-taking and empathy — are part of the same unwritten rules we often turn to, as individuals…

Detecting Agile Bullshit web.archive.org

US Department of Defense guide to detect software projects that are really using agile development versus those that are simply waterfall or spiral development in agile clothing (“agile-scrum-fall”).

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design web.archive.org

Lots of wisdom about space program management.

Great PMs don't spend their time on solutions web.archive.org

Not on solutions, no. But on customer's problems.

Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive web.archive.org

“Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts.”

Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees web.archive.org

“and why the best way to get a bigger pay is to move to a new job.”

Why individual OKRs don't work for us web.archive.org

Spotify decision to stop using OKRs for individuals.

Disney's Frozen web.archive.org

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How to discipline overeager engineer web.archive.org

Over-achieving talent is looking for a management promotion. Management does not recognize effort. Engineer become disgruntled and management is looking to discipline him. A case-study of a bad situation in which both side shows clumsiness.

How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code web.archive.org

“Instead of writing code, consider having the candidate read existing code and talk about how it works. 1) Reading code is 95% of what a developer does as part of their job. 2) A candidate can tell you a lot about their programming skill in the first five minutes of reading. 3)…