Posts tagged with Management
Organizational Flexibility
Recently, I've been helping our company make a handful of business-critical hires for the team, one of which is an open managerial role in our New York office[1]. I've long believed that hiring is…
The Engineering Leaders Hired by Startups
It started with a tweet: Agreed, particularly in looking for an external hire, it’s to compliment a missing piece within the current team and more often than not it’s the management piece. — Allen Cheung (@allenmhc) January 23, 2020…
The Technical Interview Prep Cottage Industry
In writing about the software engineering gold rush, it was mostly through the lenses of my own career, observations made: * As a college student during the boom and bust of the dotcom era, * Through a career as a software engineer…
Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team
I've read a good amount of Dan Brown's novels. It's a guilty pleasure in reading; I know that every story features literally the same character, much of the same plot points, dashes of real-…
Code is a Cultural Artifact
So I've been accused, more than once, of obsessing over organizational structures. Heck, I just waxed poetically about Conway's Law recently, and that was just after leading a couple of sessions at a conference on, specifically,…
Unpacking Conway's Law
I've been thinking a lot recently about organizational structure and design[1]. Eventually, I'm reminded and inevitably return to Conway's Law: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose…
