/Management

Visual Workflow Automation. Now With Code.

tl;dr: Build powerful automations fast, with all the hackability you’d expect as a developer. Stop provisioning infrastructure and maintaining one-off scripts. Build and automate cron jobs, custom alerts, and ETL tasks 10x faster with Retool Workflows.

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No Architecture Is Better Than Bad Architecture

- Kirill Rogovoy tl;dr: "Turns out, architecting code-introducing granular concepts, abstractions, relationships, and giving all those things names, scopes, and responsibilities has a cost. On top of that, undoing such structures is 10 times more costly than building them."

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12 Factor App Revisited

tl;dr: "The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications. We cover how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear."

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Traits You Can Change, And Traits You Can't

tl;dr: The author pinpoints traits that can be changed and those that cannot. Mistaking the two causes costly, common talent retention issues: (1) Failing to believe in a rising star, because you thought that their weaknesses couldn’t be addressed. (2) Investing too much in a lost cause, because you thought that their built-in weaknesses could be coached.

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Lead Time For Software Delivery

- Shubha Nabar tl;dr: With the emergence of the DORA metrics as a standard for measuring the quality and velocity of software delivery, software engineering organizations the world over are starting to think about their “lead time” for delivering software changes. Read this post to learn all about "Lead Time", how it is different from "Cycle Time" and more...

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The Engineering Manager’s Tools

- Francisco Trindade tl;dr: "While companies and teams vary, in most cases, an EM has authority over how their team works and how they evaluate their team members. This authority means they have three primary tools for change: Systems, Behavior, and Reward." Francisco discusses each here.

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What US Engineering Managers Can Expect To Earn In 2022

- Scott Carey tl;dr: "Data found that engineering management roles – ranging from engineering manager up to director and VP of engineering – still consistently pay the highest among tech roles." The article shows the national average salary range for the 50th and 75th percentile of applicants of CTO, senior manager, and other roles.

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The DevSecOps Maturity Model

tl;dr: A blueprint for assessing and advancing your organization’s DevSecOps practices to detect vulnerabilities and deliver digital services with more confidence.

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The Senior Shift

- Camille Fournier tl;dr: "The real difference that companies are looking for is not that you are capable, but that you have demonstrated those capabilities by delivering impact. It’s not enough to have the skills, you have to deploy them to produce something of value to the wider group. In fact, while companies may put language about increasing expertise in their engineering levels, the real lens that they use to evaluate that expertise is through increasing scope of ownership, delivery, and impact."

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What To Do When a Beloved Employee Quits

- Lara Hogan tl;dr: "Consider team dynamics, the projects on this person’s plate, and what you want the future to look like. The employee may: (1) Be highly respected so you want to optimize for supporting their teammates and helping them feel secure after they leave. (2) Be disruptive to team culture, so you want to optimize for a smooth and speedy departure with minimal conflict. (3) Have a lot of connections to folks you may want to hire for future roles, so you want to ensure they have a really positive experience in the last few weeks. Lara walks through the playbook. 

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