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The presumption here is that engineering leadership is the best source of intelligence and ideas. That now you are in a leadership role, you have a megaphone, so use it. This is a …

Yes! I suggest starting with https://pragprog.com/titles/rjnsd/the-nature-of-software-dev... "The Nature of Software Development", by Ron Jeffries. Focus on incremental value, enga…

You are hired to bring in your context and personality and experience. Do not fall in the same traps the org has been in. If they didn't need help and change, you would not have be…

Micromanagement is what managers do who don't trust their teams or feel threatened by their engineers. If you are a former engineer in management, remember what it feels like to be…

"Holly fuck balls this is all bullshit." TOTALLY. Never seen someone so wrong be so celebrated. This guy makes horrid engineering orgs.

I have seen Will Larson's techniques applied/ forced in multiple organizations and have found that his view of the engineering world just does not work. I sense that there is a cul…

Always looking for an advantage, those Astros. Trash-can banging experience a plus.

Pay salaries, or pay taxes. The society that enables a for-profit company to succeed is not free for the taking. Do your part.

Throughout the early 2000s, and before, engineers have resisted efforts to organize. Usually this resistance was framed in either libertarian ideology, or with the shared hallucina…