The Best Management Books
Being a good manager requires a wide range of skills that often take years to...
Being a good manager requires a wide range of skills that often take years to...
I once shared office space with a quickly-growing startup in downtown Chicago. This company seemed...
When I joined my first startup almost ten years ago, most of the prevailing wisdom...
Hiring a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a difficult feat at the best of times....
As a startup founder, you get pulled in a million different directions from the moment...
When I took my first real management role as Packback’s Head of Engineering back in...
Being a great CTO requires insight and vision in both technology and business. You have...
During the eight years I spent as an engineering manager, I regularly tracked how I...
Coronavirus has forced the majority of software engineering teams across the world into remote work...
In 2016 when I joined The Graide Network, I was the first developer. With the...
I’ve gone through a couple iterations of my hiring process here on the blog, but...
Software engineering management is an evolving field with a growing body of knowledge, and thousands...
In the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with several employees who...
“Chief Technology Officer” (or “CTO”) sounds like a glamorous title. It’s right up there with...
People will continue to request more of your time until you say no. I was...
When asking non-technical team members to prioritize their issues on an absolute scale I’ve noticed...
As a startup developer I’m always trying to strike a balance between pragmatism and optimization....
When I first published this in April, 2015, we were trying to obsessively estimate our...
Two years ago I read Peopleware for the first time and wrote this blog post....
I first started using Trello and published this post in January, 2015, and since then...
It’s time for New Year’s Resolutions, which means it’s time for at least 127,000,000 people in...
I first started using a system for keeping in touch with important people in my...
When I first published this post in June, 2014, I was just starting to manage...
I remember vividly the feeling I got when I was put in charge of my...
After over 2 and a half years at Packback, I’ve decided to move on and...
I’ve found Agile to be a great tool for helping startups build software at a...