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Covers some chaos engineering practices that aren't very common in the wild: 1) Evil staging - make an environment less reliable on purpose 2) Gauntlet programs - gradually inject …

From the article: Include all the work. One thing to be careful of is that the demos are inclusive of all the work required to build functional software. Prepare the team to demo a…

I’m the author, and didn’t say any of those things. I said that bias can lead to harder standards for minorities. They can be judged by higher standards.

Hiring junior engineers is challenging. I’ve seen so many junior engineers get hired but then be supported poorly. This is a writeup of the best program I’ve seen for hiring and on…

FAST agile is an agile variant that uses self-organization within very large teams to scale organizations. This is a deep dive into the tradeoffs of FAST agile. It may not be as cr…

Step by step guide to hiring engineering managers. Includes sample questions, interview formats, and more.

I'm the author of the piece. Yes, that's very true. There is a difference between what you can control and what you can influence. By understanding how it works, you increase you c…

I'm the author of the original piece. Totally agree with this -- it can be quite simple to implement. Increasing retention makes a big difference. Unfortunately, there are more inc…

Hi, I'm the author. Totally agree with you on this. I do tend to focus on milestones first, because even if you're focusing on problems, using milestones to focus on what's next ca…

Hi, I'm the author. I'm not intending to describe working in sprints. You can implement the ideas behind this article with sprints, kanban, or something else entirely. Using sprint…

Can you explain more? I don't see it that way, but it might be we're defining things differently. Milestones are defined in a specific way within the article, and in that way they …

Hi, I'm the author. This isn't a post about scrum vs kanban. It's primarily about the value of using a specific definition of milestone to encourage incremental delivery. And to hi…