Organizational Design
You don’t have to choose just one organizational strategy for your entire company. A mature product org may be organized by goal, while a new product org has...
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My Expectations for Managers
These are my basic expectations for managers that report to me
What are Healthy Relationships?
Strong relationships built in the small moments will be what you lean on to get through tough times
80 Percent is Done
80% of impact for anything comes from the first 20% of the work
Setting Direction: Create a Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy using Apple circa 1997 as an example
Thanksgiving Epic Estimation Workshop
Epic estimation is as much about best-effort definition of scope and milestones as a cross-functional team, as it is about putting estimate values on roadmap...
How to Run a Zoom All Hands
If you’re working in corporate America, you’ve probably been to a lot of All Hands presentations.
How I use OmniFocus Get Things Done
This is my personal system for staying on top of everything.
How to run a Retrospective
Retrospectives are a good catch-all for team health, bonding, and continuous improvement
The Software Engineer’s Easy Mode Guide to US Tax Withholdings
Set withholdings to zero, and pay up to an extra 15% of your bonus and RSU vest in the form of quarterly estimated taxes