The Metrics That Matter When You’re Scaling a Product Team
Scaling a product team produces a predictable crisis: suddenly there are too many things to measure and no agreement on […]
Team Productivity
Growing from 10 to 50 Without Losing What Made You Fast
There is a window in early-stage SaaS where everything moves at a speed that feels almost irrational. Features ship in
How to Run a 30-Minute All-Hands That People Actually Want to Attend
Most all-hands meetings earn their bad reputation. They run long, they cover updates that could have been an email, and
Onboarding Engineers Without Losing Two Sprints
Every engineering leader knows the feeling: a strong new hire joins, and for the next six weeks, velocity quietly crumbles.
The Art of Saying No Without Killing Team Morale
No is the most important word in a product manager’s vocabulary. It is also the most dangerous. Said poorly, it
Building a Product Roadmap Your Stakeholders Will Actually Trust
Roadmap trust is earned slowly and lost quickly. A single quarter where delivery misses the plan by a wide margin
The Quarterly Planning Ritual That Doesn’t Derail Your Team
Quarterly planning has a reputation problem. Ask most engineers how they feel about it and you will hear variations of
Stop Shipping Features, Start Shipping Outcomes
There is a quiet crisis inside most product teams. The backlog grows, sprints fill up, and the team ships —
Maker vs. Manager: How to Plan Projects When Both Schedules Live on the Same Team
Paul Graham’s 2009 essay on maker and manager schedules remains one of the most useful frameworks for understanding why engineering
How to Build a Culture of Documentation Without the Overhead
Ask any engineering team if they want better documentation and you’ll get unanimous agreement. Ask who’s going to write it