An Elegant Puzzle coming in late May.
April 1, 2019 A quick update on my book, An Elegant Puzzle, and the updated release date in late May.
Fire fixation.
March 23, 2019 Of the early Stripe lore I've encountered, my favorite is that it managed to accomplish a tremendous amount with a small team because folks moved so rapidly from one project to another project that, leaving an afterimage behind them, it appeared that they were everywhere simultaneously.
Rules of thumb for org design.
March 17, 2019 While writing 'How to evolve an engineering organization', there were a bunch of org design rules of thumb that are interesting to discuss but didn't fit into the article well, so I've written them up here instead.
How to evolve an engineering organization.
March 5, 2019 I recently had the opportunity to present to a small group of early-stage founders about evolving their engineering organization as their company scaled. While preparing, I realized that the most relevant piece I've written about organization design was about running reorganizations.
Paying the predictability tax.
February 24, 2019 The core observations from Fred Brook's The Mythical Man Month is that assigning more folks to work on a project often slows down delivery. Part of that is the predictability tax.