/Management

Basic Things

- Alex Kladov tl;dr: “After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties: (1) They are irrelevant while the project is small. (2) They are a productivity multiplier when the project is large. (3) They are much harder to introduce down the line.”

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Tone And Words: Use Accurate Language

- Wes Kao tl;dr: “You make decisions, allocate resources, and make plans — all based on words. This is why it’s important that your language accurately reflects a few things: intent, meaning, severity, level of certainty, stakes and power dynamics.” Wes describes how to use words that accurately reflect what you mean.

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Basic Things

- Alex Kladov tl;dr: “After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties: (1) They are irrelevant while the project is small. (2) They are a productivity multiplier when the project is large. (3) They are much harder to introduce down the line.”

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Securing Applications in the Age of AI: New Threats, New Strategies

- Reed McGinley-Stempel tl;dr: As artificial intelligence reshapes application security, new threats emerge alongside innovative protective strategies. Reed explores the challenges posed by AI-driven attacks and offers proactive measures to strengthen your security framework, empowering you to safeguard applications while maximizing AI's potential for resilience.

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Finding The Goldilocks Zone: Just The Right Amount Of Process

- AbdulFattah Popoola tl;dr: “All the struggling organizations I have worked in shared one common characteristic. They had process deficiencies: some did too little, while some did too much. The best-performing orgs? They did just right. This post offers suggestions and tips for leaders seeking to introduce change.”

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Technical Coherence

- Jack Danger tl;dr: “Software development slows down over time. I wrote a whole book to help leaders reverse this slowdown and the central point of the book is a process any engineering leader can apply. I call this process Technical Coherence and you can mostly achieve it in a single meeting with your leaders. You can implement it in your org gradually or all at once.”

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Ad Hoc Infrastructure

- Kent Beck tl;dr: “My intention in this note is to reclaim the phrase ad hoc from those who use it as a pejorative, especially as applied to infrastructure. Instead, building infrastructure ad hoc is the safest, most efficient strategy. It carefully balances the risks inherent in creating infrastructure, stages investment, and realizes economies of scale.”

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Technical Coherence

- Jack Danger tl;dr: “Software development slows down over time. I wrote a whole book to help leaders reverse this slowdown and the central point of the book is a process any engineering leader can apply. I call this process Technical Coherence and you can mostly achieve it in a single meeting with your leaders. You can implement it in your org gradually or all at once.”

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Differing Values In A Team Are Costly

- Raphael Gaschignard tl;dr: “A team has a set of values, and members of those teams have values. If everyone is in perfect alignment, you might argue that there are blind spots. But if people are highly performant along those axes, then the blind spots almost don't matter. Meanwhile, if you have a team of 2 people, and they have a huge values gap, their job now becomes a tug-of-war, on top of the normal work of building things.”

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Heartbeats: Keeping Strategies Alive

- James Stanier tl;dr: “The heartbeat is a communication that looks back at the strategy, recaps the key points, and then shows how it has been implemented in the time since the last heartbeat. It's a chance to show how the strategy is living and relevant, and that it's not just a document that was written once and then placed on the shelf.” James shares strategies for doing so. 

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