Bringing on a new leader to your organization is always tricky. It starts with hiring. Then comes the real part. Onboarding! I always think bringing in a new leader without context is like starting construction without a blueprint. You’ll get noise and activity, but not stability. Perhaps, a few things are done, but in the wrong order. Walls before foundations. […]
Software development involves both creating and maintaining systems. Once you put anything into production, reliability becomes critical. When your systems are not reliable, you face issues in various ways. If you are a SaaS company, you could lose customers. Nobody wants their business to stop because of your reliability problems. They will go to the competition. In B2C, customers cannot […]
If you are part of a large organization, the term “dependencies” probably means more than software packages. In a big organization, when we talk about “dependencies,” we’re diving into more than just software stuff. It’s about all the other teams we’re on this journey with. For us engineering leaders, figuring out the dance between needing stuff from others (downstream) and […]