Chaotic-Good Engineering Management

Why writing software has never been the expensive part.

We All Want to Be Productive Everyone wants to be productive.

How to Stay Steady When the Job Itself is Changing No one can deny that our industry is in a period of great change.

Design APIs, Not Implementations When it comes to team operating principles, I'm sure we've all encountered the leader who values uniformity seemingly for the sake of it.

Tech Debt started out as a useful metaphor.

Why low levels of trust leads to low levels of performance.

How your interviewing posture reflects your leadership culture I estimate I’ve conducted well over 1,000 job interviews for developers and managers in my career.

Good leadership is remaining calm and steady while everything crashes around you.

In commercial aviation, most people know there's a "Pilot" and a "Co-Pilot" up front (also known as the "Captain" and "First Officer").

One of the most valuable questions I ask myself.

...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now.

I was listening to a podcast the other day (I'm not going to link to the specific episode because it's about current events and there are plenty of places to discuss those.

💡 This is a guest post by Lin Byrne, a Principal Infrastructure Engineer who previously held engineering management roles at companies like Okta and CircleCI.

In a previous post, I talked about balancing ‘creating work’ and ‘destroying work’ such that the backlog does not become a huge mental burden on everyone to the point that it gives the impression that “the dev team is slow” or “we’re not making enough pro…

A theme I return to a lot in my head is the difference in friction between "creating" and "destroying" work to be done.