Designing Serendipity for Remote Teams
Serendipity is an outcome of environment design, not proximity. Learn how designing serendipity for remote teams—via idle overlap and opt-in spaces—sparks cross-team creativity.
Ship Smaller, Faster: Overcome Perfectionism in Engineering
Ship smaller, faster releases, and let real user feedback drive quality. Here’s how to overcome perfectionism in engineering with guardrails and post-release standards.
How to Get Buy-In for Uncertain Projects (Without Overselling)
Quantify pain, demo scrappy prototypes, translate benefits into executive outcomes, and follow a clear learning path. This is how to get buy-in for uncertain projects without overselling.
Focus on Strengths Not Weaknesses: Leverage That Compounds
Stop diluting your impact by chasing every gap. Focus on strengths not weaknesses, stack what you do best, and cover the rest with delegation, tools, or partnerships.
Build Reliable AI Pipelines: 5 Proven Pillars for Stability
Applied AI breaks in messy, silent ways. Build reliable AI pipelines by testing across variability, grounding and QA at each step, and simplifying orchestration to keep outputs predictable.
Kickoff as a System: An engineering project kickoff framework for speed and inclusion
Treat kickoff as a system, not a meeting. This engineering project kickoff framework uses a written brief, a small decision core, async input, and adaptive reviews to decouple speed from inclusion.
Managing AI Development Complexity: Build Reliable Systems
AI can boost output, but without daily maintenance, observability, alignment, and validation, speed turns fragile. Managing AI development complexity makes velocity dependable.
Integrate Documentation into Developer Workflow: Treat Docs as Infrastructure
Treat documentation as core infrastructure by keeping it where work happens, making it modular, capturing the why, and reviewing it like code. Integrate documentation into developer workflow to unlock speed, trust, and scale across your engineering org.
Train Engineering Teams for Change: The Resilience Playbook
Treat change as the baseline, then train for it like a skill. This playbook helps engineering leaders expect plans to break, spot early signals, run drills, design options, and reframe outcomes so disruption becomes an advantage.
When “No” Becomes Your Best Design Tool
Leading engineering teams under constraints turns limits into alignment, speed, and resilience. Choose one constraint, pressure-test it, and make it routine.