Engineering Insights
Best practices, guides, and thoughts on building high-performing software teams.
Scaling Engineering Culture in Hypergrowth
How to maintain velocity and quality when your team doubles in size every six months.
Context Switching: The Velocity Killer
Why multi-tasking is a myth, and how to protect your team's 'Maker Time'.
How to Run an Effective Engineering Retro
Stop complaining and start changing. A framework for turning retrospectives into actionable velocity improvements.
Optimizing the 'Inner Loop' for Developers
The secret to developer happiness and high velocity lies in the seconds, not the days. Speed up the inner loop.
Technical Debt vs. Technical Leverage
Not all debt is bad. Learn how to distinguish between sloppy code and strategic shortcuts that buy you speed.
Debugging Team Communications
The hardest bugs aren't in the code—they're in how your team talks to each other. Here is how to fix the API between people.
Moving Beyond 'Lines of Code'
Why LOC is a vanity metric, and what you should be measuring instead to gauge developer impact.
The Role of Psychological Safety in Velocity
Why the fastest teams are the ones where it is safe to fail. The neuroscience of high-performance engineering.
The Psychology of Code Review: Beyond Nitpicking
Why your team's review culture might be slowing you down, and how to shift from gatekeeping to collaboration.
Why Your Jira Board Is Lying to You
Moving tickets to 'Done' doesn't mean you're shipping value. Here is why work-in-progress is the silent killer of productivity.
Measuring Engineering Velocity Without Losing Quality
Speed matters, but not at the expense of stability. Learn how to balance DORA metrics with code quality insights.
The Ultimate Guide to DORA Metrics
Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR, and Change Failure Rate: What they are and how to improve them.