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- How hard can it be to buy software?
How hard can it be to buy software?
4 minutes by Jessica Kerr
Jessica describes the complex journey of implementing a SaaS product within an organization, revealing that purchasing software is just the beginning of a challenging process. She details multiple hurdles including budget approvals, security reviews, GDPR compliance, data integration with existing systems, and the crucial task of getting employees to actually use the new software.
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The Engineering Manager’s Areas of Responsibility
3 minutes by Francisco Trindade
Francisco outlines three critical domains where EMs need to concentrate: Product success in the market, Engineering excellence and sustainability, and People management for team growth and fulfillment. While EMs are directly accountable for engineering practices and their reports' success, they also share responsibility for overall team success through cross-functional collaboration with other disciplines like product management and design.
How I ship projects at big tech companies
11 minutes by Sean Goedecke
Key success factors include maintaining trust with leadership through clear communication, having end-to-end project understanding, and deploying early with fallback plans. Sean emphasizes that shipping must be the top priority and typically requires one dedicated person to drive it to completion.
Programmer Collaboration Styles
14 minutes by Adam Ard
In software development, two collaboration styles have proven to be most effective. Individual stewardship, exemplified by open-source projects, involves one person owning both vision and implementation, with others contributing through pull requests. Shared stewardship, more common in corporate environments, involves team-wide responsibility for project direction and quality, requiring frequent communication and collective decision-making.
An alternative to OKRs: How to set and achieve ambitious goals
17 minutes by Ravi Mehta
Strategy & roadmapping is hard, but the most common failure mode for teams is execution. Teams often know where they want to go in the long-term, but struggle to get there. In this post, we discuss why goal setting is so hard and how to more consistently set and achieve ambitious goals.
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