The Five Stages Every Engineering Team Goes Through with AI (and How to Know Where You Are Now) Post date May 12, 2026 Post author By Joel Comm Post categories In ai-adoption, ai-assisted-coding, ai-governance, ai-workflow-integration, developer-productivity-with-ai, engineering-management, software-architecture, software-engineering-culture
Your Brain Is a Terrible Database. Here’s the Operating System I Built to Replace It Post date April 20, 2026 Post author By Alex Rashkov Post categories In ai, ai-native-second-brain, claude-code, codex, engineering-management, obsidian, productivity, second-brain
The Git Log Never Lies Post date April 17, 2026 Post author By Vignesh Durai Post categories In code quality, code-reviews, developer-experience, engineering-management, hackathon, hackathons, software engineering, software-development
You Should Be Managing Your AI Agents as Engineers: Here’s Why Post date April 12, 2026 Post author By Karo (Product with Attitude) Post categories In ai-agent-management, ai-agent-workflow, ai-agents, ai-agents-guide, ai-agents-tips, artificial-intelligence, define-deliver-drive-framework, engineering-management
Our SaaS Contract Renewal Came In 18% Higher. We Paid It. Then We Built the Exit Plan. Post date March 25, 2026 Post author By Dinesh Kumar Elumalai Post categories In build-vs.-buy, cloud-costs, cost-optimization, devops, engineering-management, saas, software-architecture, Technical Debt
Most Teams Know Bad On-Call. Few Can Define Good On-Call. Post date March 20, 2026 Post author By Spencer Post categories In burnout, developer-experience, devops, engineering-management, incident-management, on-call, software engineering, sre
When Senior Teams Stop Debugging Their Decisions Post date February 17, 2026 Post author By Norm Bond Post categories In decision-making, engineering-management, interpretation-gap, leadership, narrative-debt, product-management, startups, systems-thinking
The Limits of Spec-Driven Development Post date December 2, 2025 Post author By Chris Post categories In ai-coding, ai-coding-tools, devops-trends, engineering-management, generative-ai, sdlc2025, software-architecture, spec-driven-development
The Limits of Spec-Driven Development Post date December 2, 2025 Post author By Chris Post categories In ai-coding, ai-coding-tools, devops-trends, engineering-management, generative-ai, sdlc2025, software-architecture, spec-driven-development
How AI Is Quietly Reshaping the Software Development Lifecycle Post date December 1, 2025 Post author By Kshitij Patil Post categories In Agile, ai-coding-assistant, ai-product-development, devops, engineering-management, SDLC, software-development, Technical Debt
7 Must-Read Books for Better Leadership and Management Post date September 22, 2025 Post author By Séverin Bruhat Post categories In coaching, engineering-management, leadership, management, personal-development
You Should Be Giving Feedback That Builds, Not Breaks: Here’s How Post date September 3, 2025 Post author By Vinita Bansal Post categories In constructive-criticism, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, feedback, feedback-to-actionable-advice, leadership-skills, management-and-leadership, performance-appraisal
From Wrangling Code to Taming Chaos: How Being a Software Engineer Made Me a Better Operator Post date August 8, 2025 Post author By Charles Wong Post categories In bizops, data-engineering, engineering-management, north-star-metrics, objective-functions, product-development, product-management, software-development
I Didn’t Learn Leadership in a Book — I Lived It Post date May 25, 2025 Post author By Alexander Classen Post categories In building-team-trust, developer-team-management, engineering-management, hackernoon-top-story, leadership, real-leadership-lessons, software-team-leadership, teamwork
If a Task Does Not Directly Contribute to the Company’s Goals, It’s Wasted Effort Post date February 27, 2025 Post author By Cagla Akin Post categories In Agile, agile-leadership, engineering-management, leadership, product, product-management, Scrum, technical-product-management
Technical Expert, Human Leader: Breaking the Expertise Paradox Post date February 13, 2025 Post author By Daniel Llach Post categories In career-growth, engineering-management, software-architecture, software-development, tech-leadership
Technical Metrics Integration Flow: Observability and Monitoring Post date February 6, 2025 Post author By Illia Halashko Post categories In engineering-management, metrics, reliability, site-reliability-engineering, software engineering, software-architecture, software-reliability, technical-metrics
Jargon Is Killing Your Leadership: You Should Be Doing This Instead Post date February 4, 2025 Post author By Marco Ziccardi Post categories In communication, communication-skills, effective-communication, engineering, engineering-management, leadership, leadership-skills, management
Technical Mentoring: The Art of Seeing The Whole Person Post date January 2, 2025 Post author By Daniel Llach Post categories In career-growth, engineering, engineering-management, leadership, software-development
Boost and Maintain Your Team’s Morale Post date September 27, 2024 Post author By Vinita Bansal Post categories In employee-morale, engineering-management, leadership-skills, management-and-leadership, motivate-your-dev-team, team-management, team-motivation-ideas, team-performance
Navigating the Maze of Technical Documentation: Best Practices for Keeping Your Code Up-To-Date Post date July 25, 2024 Post author By Illia Halashko Post categories In code quality, engineering-management, onboarding, project-documentation, software engineering, software-development, software-documentation, technical-documentation
Translating Business Needs into Technical Solutions Post date July 11, 2024 Post author By Illia Halashko Post categories In agile-methodology, business-strategy, engineering-management, software-development, stakeholder-communication, system-design, tech-leadership, technical-analysis
Death by Experience Post date June 4, 2024 Post author By Blog (Web Development and Engineering Management, Mostly) · Jens Oliver Meiert Post categories In engineering-management
The Great Tech and People Hypocrisy Post date May 14, 2024 Post author By Blog (Web Development and Engineering Management, Mostly) · Jens Oliver Meiert Post categories In engineering-management
Critical Feedback: Four Approaches and One Twist Post date May 2, 2024 Post author By Blog (Web Development and Engineering Management, Mostly) · Jens Oliver Meiert Post categories In engineering-management, Everything Else
On the Gift of OKR for Company Culture Post date March 21, 2024 Post author By Blog (Web Development and Engineering Management, Mostly) · Jens Oliver Meiert Post categories In engineering-management
Why I Like Scrumban Post date February 13, 2024 Post author By Blog (Web Development and Engineering Management, Mostly) · Jens Oliver Meiert Post categories In engineering-management
Performance and Stay Questions in 1:1s Post date January 15, 2024 Post author By Blog (Web Development and Engineering Management, Mostly) · Jens Oliver Meiert Post categories In engineering-management
Should Anyone be Called a DevOps Engineer? Post date November 18, 2021 Post author By Michael Levan Post categories In devops, devops-vs-sre, engineering, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, site-reliability-engineer, site-reliability-engineering, software engineering
Are You Contributing to a Toxic Work Environment Without Realizing It? Post date November 12, 2021 Post author By Vinita Bansal Post categories In engineering-management, leadership, management, personal-development, personal-growth, professional-development, team-productivity, toxic-culture
Why Tech Startup Leaders Should Still Spend Some of their Time Coding Post date November 12, 2021 Post author By Michael Levan Post categories In engineering, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, software engineering, solopreneur, startup-advice, startup-founders, vps
Leveraging Data as a Proactive Engineering Manager Post date November 10, 2021 Post author By Waydev Post categories In agile-software-development, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, good-company, software-development, software-engineering-metrics
Why Application Performance Monitoring Matters Post date November 8, 2021 Post author By Michael Levan Post categories In application-development, devops, engineering, engineering-management, performance-monitoring, serverless-monitoring, site-reliability-engineering, sre
Learning Management: My Adventure as an Acting Delivery Manager Post date November 1, 2021 Post author By Pratheep Raj Post categories In acting-delivery-manager, business, engineering-management, leadership, management, Project Management, software-delivery, team-management
Is VSM the New Way to Measure DevOps? Post date October 28, 2021 Post author By Michael Levan Post categories In cio, cto-role, engineering, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, how-to-be-a-good-cto, site-reliability-engineering, software engineering
How to Test Terraform the Right Way Post date October 26, 2021 Post author By Michael Levan Post categories In code-testing, devops, engineering-management, hashicorp, infrastructure-as-code, software-testing, terraform, terraform-testing
Was Hank Scorpio a Good Boss? Post date October 22, 2021 Post author By John Post categories In engineering-management, leadership, leadership-development, management-and-leadership, product-management, servant-leadership, startup, the-simpsons
DevOps vs. SRE: Which Career Direction is Right for You? Post date October 13, 2021 Post author By Michael Levan Post categories In devops, devops-vs-sre, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, programming, site-reliability-engineer, site-reliability-engineering, sre
Increasing Engineering Efficiency with Software Development Analytics Post date October 12, 2021 Post author By Alex Circei Post categories In Agile, engineering-efficiency, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, engineering-metrics, software-development, software-development-analytics, software-engineering-metrics, web-monetization
Hacking Quarterly Performance Reviews Post date September 19, 2021 Post author By John Post categories In engineering-management, hackernoon-top-story, hacking, hacking-performance-reviews, management, people-management, performance-review, quarterly-performance-reviews
Spacecraft Engineering Models: How to Migrate UML to TypeQL Post date September 8, 2021 Post author By Daniel Crowe Post categories In concurrent-programming, data-modeling, databases, engineering-management, space, space-industry, space-technology, typedb
Throwing Top Engineering Internship Myths out the Window Post date September 4, 2021 Post author By Patrick McCarthy Post categories In coding, coding-skills, engineering-management, hackernoon-top-story, internship-guide, internships, management, software engineering
Ted Lasso’s Leadership Lessons Made Me a Successful Leader Post date July 27, 2021 Post author By John Post categories In engineering-management, hackernoon-top-story, leadership-development, leadership-skills, management-and-leadership, startup-lessons, team-management, what-makes-a-good-leader
Top 3 Metrics For Engineering Team Performance Post date June 26, 2021 Post author By Alex Omeyer Post categories In engineering, engineering-management, engineering-productivity, software engineering, software-development, software-engineer, software-engineering-metrics, team-productivity
Your Superpower: Change What You Control Post date May 27, 2021 Post author By John Post categories In engineering-management, leadership, management, mental-models, mentorship, office-culture, organizational-culture, product-management
How To Assess And Improve Your Software Engineering Team’s Performance Post date April 13, 2021 Post author By Junade Ali Post categories In agile-development, agile-software-development, agile-teams, devops, engineering-management, software engineering, software-engineering-metrics, team-productivity
Is The Daily Standup A Waste Of Time? Post date April 11, 2021 Post author By John Post categories In agile-development, agile-leadership, agile-scrum, agile-teams, daily-scrum, daily-standup, engineering-management, software-development
Splitting Time Between Product and Engineering Efforts Post date April 5, 2021 Post author By Sarah Drasner Post categories In Article, communication, engineering-management, Migrations, Product and Engineering work, refactor
Uncovering Motivation in Engineering: an Interview with a Technical Recruiter Post date April 4, 2021 Post author By David Choe Post categories In engineering-management, hiring, interview-questions, interviewing-tips, management-and-leadership, recr
10 Common Product Management Mistakes that Could be Slowing Your Progress Post date March 11, 2021 Post author By Rajesh Nerlikar & Ben Foster Post categories In business-strategy, engineering-management, management, product-development, product-management, product-manager, product-strategy, startup-advice
Mistakes I’ve Made as an Engineering Manager Post date February 18, 2021 Post author By Sarah Drasner Post categories In Article, engineering-management, learning, management, mistakes
Important Work Life Lessons on How to Effectively Manage an Existing Engineering Team Post date February 14, 2021 Post author By John Post categories In engineering-management, inclusion, leadership, management, managing-technical-people, people-skills, product-management, teamwork
4 Focus Areas for New Engineering Managers Who Give a D.A.M.N. Post date February 12, 2021 Post author By Ryan Tinker Post categories In careers, engineering-management, leadership-tips-for-engineers, management, manager, product, software engineering, startups
The 4 Common Pitfalls We Fall Into As Engineering Managers Post date February 11, 2021 Post author By Csaba Okrona Post categories In agile-leadership, engineering-leadership, engineering-management, failure, leadership, leadership-development, management-and-leadership, what-makes-a-good-leader