Jade Rubick
Don't make your engineering team commit
Piles point out your problems
The Campsite Rule
Reflecting power - using power you don't have
Product management resources
How to develop a sixth sense for the long-term
Task Forces can solve (some of) your cross-functional challenges
Reliability is all stick, no carrot
Your team may need a Hero Rotation
Massively multiplayer retrospectives
Tiny Thursdays
Why and how to do skip level 1-1s
Don't repeat incidents
How to avoid being a bottleneck leader
Organizational work and the second job
Macho leadership and bro culture
Managing a bottleneck team
The danger of fan out work
Strategy pitfalls (on the Level Up podcast)
Evil staging and gauntlet programs, tools to increase your software reliability
The dangers of unreliable platforms (on the SRE Path podcast)
Velocity role 4 - the Nowist
Velocity role 3 - the Dodger
Velocity role 2 - the Mole
Velocity role 1 - the Subtractionist
Group leadership coaching
Organizational danger zones
The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
Tactical advice for building effective eng teams, anti-patterns to avoid (Snack bites podcast)
A detailed look at FaST agile -- a practice well worth your time
Curious about becoming an executive consultant?
The ultimate playbook for hiring engineering managers - a step-by-step guide
The secret to holding a candidate review meeting that isn't boring as hell
How an executive advisor can help you grow faster and navigate unfamiliar terrain
Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineer
Solving cross-team priorities with a Product Council - an experience report
A history of Mini-Ms
High trust and low trust organizations
Advice for new directors
Your process should be open source
What tools to use for an engineering handbook
Variations for Mini-M management support groups
How to implement Mini-M support groups
Uplevel your managers with Mini-M support groups
Books on management
Implementing software engineering levels (with fully-usable examples)
Leaders make their own problems
A weekly project plan you will want to frame
How to not screw up your product strategy
Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all cost?
If you want to be a terrible manager, focus on being a shit shield
Learn the weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
Can this ownership exercise improve how you work with others?
What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
Make changes that people will embrace
Use these tips to improve your executive presence
How security, reliability, and design teams can get other teams to do work for them -- the Objective Expert Model
Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
Using a DSLR for video conferencing
Engineering manager vs. tech lead -- which is better?
Achieve autonomy in product engineering with the independent executor model
Working together is the best -- the guide to happy embedding
Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause massive problems?
Liaison - the spy you'll love to send to other teams
Don’t use goal frameworks to manage projects
Scale platform teams with the best approach for platform teams - self-service
Beware the service provider model - a recipe for engineering team failure
No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making
Coordination models - tools for getting groups to work well together
How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)
Bundled hiring to double the effectiveness of your hiring process
Write compelling and unbiased job descriptions
Use a candidate packet to improve your interview process
Rethink your hiring strategy to stand out and delight the best candidates
Your hiring process is too slow -- speed it up with these five tips
Wonderful hiring practices that for some reason aren't more common
Exploration and exploitation in technical standards
Everyone lies to leaders
Use holiday focus days to increase company focus and honor your team's diversity
Unusual tips to keep Slack from becoming a nightmare
How to refactor meetings as they grow with the rule of eight
Glue your happy brains together with shared state
Use OKRs to drive equity
Demo-driven development
Make your team miserable with one of these popular project-management anti-patterns
Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective
Increase your impact with upstream thinking
Coordinate your interviews with assertion-based interview plans
Implementing promotion bias checks
What can air combat teach us about software project failure?
Tools to make your organization better
Why is engineering slowing down? How leaders can create happy teams and good results in chaos
A practical guide to implementing pay equity in engineering
If you want a good company culture, focus on equity
Completed staff work
How to be an information flow superhero
Managing features and releases without a developer in the room