11 Jan, 2014
In-office collocated teams get a lot of criticism these days, but there are trade-offs to remote work that I rarely hear discussed.
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15 Jun, 2015
Most engineering management today is not very good. Here's why.
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16 Nov, 2016
Some thoughts about managing at the team level rather than just at the individual level.
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20 Jul, 2017
How do we dismantle the waterfall of work and start working together better?
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22 Oct, 2017
There are a lot of things that suck about traditional estimates. So we stopped using them.
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28 Apr, 2022
I've stumbled upon a style of estimation that I've seen be pretty successful. I'll call it "2W+ Estimation".
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30 Apr, 2022
The majority of software developers don’t really know how to do a very effective work breakdown and the results are often absolutely disastrous.
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09 May, 2022
I previously explained why you should care about a good work breakdown. In this post, I’ll start to dig into how.
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19 May, 2022
Thin Vertical slices are generally the best practice for work breakdowns, but they're still not as common as they should be, so I'll try to describe them more here.
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23 May, 2022
Here's the last piece of the puzzle: What does a good work breakdown look like as a whole?
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