Process

Managing your to-do list as a staff+ engineer

Nicholas C. Zakas

4 strategies for effectively managing stakeholders

Harsha Vardhan Mudumba Venkata

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Building a knowledge transfer strategy to manage technical debt

Shanea Leven

4 data recovery lessons from the British Library cyber attack

Chris Stokel-Walker

Upskilling teams at scale with learnathons

Kristen Foster-Marks

How to keep engineering teams effective through prioritization

Jack Franklin

Amazon’s Werner Vogels on the 7 laws of cost-effective engineering

Scott Carey

What DevOps teams need to know for 2024

Jennifer Riggins

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How feature measurement promotes productivity and happiness

P.A. Masse

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Stop working on islands as engineers

Ariel Pérez

Communicating quickly, effectively, and inclusively

Michael Tempest

What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity

Jennifer Riggins

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5 best practices for annual budget planning

Kevin Dallaire

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Overcoming the challenges of annual budget planning

Usha Kuchibhotla

Sarvani Kuchibhotla

How to design (and listen to) a developer survey

Harry Guinness

A prioritization framework for uncertain times

Laurie Barth

3 strategies for driving organizational change

Meg Adams

Managing the chaos of context switching

Addy Osmani

How AI changes engineering management

Harry Guinness

Using high-quality questions to unlock innovation

Sho Soboyejo

Introducing processes where none exist

Jennifer Wong

Focus on outcomes over outputs

Addy Osmani

Growing an experiment-driven quality culture

Lisi Hocke

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Keep your delivery in balance with these metrics pairings

Madison Unell

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Building a more effective DevSecOps culture

Stefania Chaplin

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Why elite dev teams focus on pull-request metrics

Dan Lines

The role of developer advocacy in driving innovation

Pratim Bhosale

How to plan your next product feature using a six-week cycle

Matevos Ghazaryan

How to protect your calendar against unnecessary meetings

Harry Guinness

How principal testers can improve company processes

Jitesh Gosai

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Removing roadblocks to faster iteration

Lindsey Simon

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Practicing engineering transparency

Cian Synnott

How engineering leaders can promote urgency in teams

Frankie Nicoletti

How engineering leaders can better organize their day

Harry Guinness

Context switching strategies to preserve your focus

Cara Borenstein

DevOps for engineering managers

Josh Fruhlinger

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Keep your digital ops thriving through 2023 uncertainty

Jonathan Rende

How to break the “get me everything” cycle

Jeffrey Sherman

How to make plans for an uncertain future

Gina Trapani

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How to bake quality into your teams’ coding process

Thomas Willams

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Three ways to reduce the cost of DevOps

Chad Carlson

LeadDev editor’s picks: December 2022

Scott Carey

How to build an effective code review process for your team

Rahim Mitha

Why business context is important for technical decision-making

Kevin Ball

Empowering engineering teams to perform code reviews

Curtis Einsmann

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How to reduce stress for on-call engineering teams

Peter Simkins

What is a developer experience team?

Abi Noda

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How to create sustainable on-call rotations

Ryn Daniels

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What is the business case for observability?

Liz Fong-Jones

Why the most advanced technology solution isn’t always the correct one

Kevin Stewart

Want to promote knowledge-sharing in your teams? Standardize the way you take notes.

Cassidy Williams

How to communicate the state of your open source project

Julia Ferraioli

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How to level up your reporting as an engineering director

James McGill

Pat Kua

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Four engineering leadership trends you need to know

Kevin Dallaire

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Five engineering KPIs to consider for your next board meeting

Bryan Helmkamp

Hillary Nussbaum

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Want to deliver more value to users? Bring engineers and customers together

Shikhar Bajaj

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How to drive a customer-focused engineering team

Tony Graham

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Four things you need to know about managing toil as you scale

Ella Morrish

How to run a great retrospective

Nickolas Means

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Four best practices for leveraging data responsibly

Hillary Nussbaum

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Why engineering teams should stop counting Agile story points

Kevin Dallaire

How to turn an engineering incident into an opportunity

Cory Watson

Setting a vision, mission, and strategy for your team

Addy Osmani

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Who is responsible for open source security?

Chetan Conikee

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Shifting left on security: Five steps to transformation

Jeremy Goldsmith

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How open source maintainers ensure projects are safe, friendly, and thriving

Emma Burstow

Balancing delivery speed with engineering health

Claire Tran

How to drive decisions as an engineering leader

Sarah Drasner

Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency

Julia Ferraioli

Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?

Cassidy Williams

Five steps for making data-informed decisions

Caitlin Hudon

How to cultivate a great engineering process

Nickolas Means

A vision for a social model of open source

Julia Ferraioli

Delegation is a superpower

Caitlin Hudon

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Communicating engineering priorities to your CEO

Ariel Illouz

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Learnings from ‘The engineering leader’s guide to data-driven leadership’

Ella Morrish

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Introducing OKRs to your team: From general alignment to measurable results

Daiany Palacios

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The rise of OpenTelemetry

Phillip Carter

Creating open source projects for your community

Kevin Stewart

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Engineering metrics at every level: An engineering director’s guide

Pat Kua

James McGill

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Learnings from 'Weighing up the pros and cons of build vs. buy'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

The search for the best solution: third party or open source?

Tal Joffe

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Ten things you need to know before making a build vs. buy decision

Dawn Parzych

Douglas Ferguson

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The long tail of product features

Arjen de Ruiter

Demystifying the software engineering test pyramid

Thayse Onofrio

Marilene Lourenço

Don’t cross the Rubicon: engineering practices you don’t want to delay

Manasi Kulkarni

Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process

Cate Huston

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Learnings from 'Deconstructing engineering velocity'

Ellie Spencer-Failes

How to run a great incident post-mortem

Katie Wilde

Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects

Tanya Reilly

Leading your engineering team through an unexpected product pivot

Najla Elmachtoub

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A primer on the OpenTelemetry collector

Ted Young

Estimating your way to success

Rod Begbie

Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’

Cate Huston

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Observability at scale

Ramez Hanna

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The health of your business depends on the health of your engineering team

Hillary Nussbaum

How to avoid alert fatigue

Serhat Can

Career ladders aren't enough – you need a thoughtful promotion process, too

Sarah Milstein

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Adopting an experimentation philosophy

Justina Nguyen

How to adapt your UI testing strategy to your product's stage

Santiago Esteva

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How to develop engineering metrics with people, process, and tools in mind

Dalia Havens

Preventing process deadlock

Victor Vu

Engineering with empathy

Jossie Haines

Hypothesis-driven development

Rod Begbie

Finding your groove: how to build your team’s operational cadence

Daniel Pupius

Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams

Smruti Patel

A resignation can be an opportunity

Kevin Goldsmith

Reliability and more: preventing a crisis in engineering production

Ricardo Aravena

Build vs. buy: know what you need, and know what you want

Chris Powell

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Addressing the challenges of build vs. buy

Dawn Parzych

Douglas Ferguson

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How to make a build vs. buy decision for a new software solution

Michael Ng

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Preventing burnout while shipping faster

Junade Ali

Every decision creates a policy

Kevin Goldsmith

The culture of process

Cate Huston

Outages are coming for you

Matthew Hawthorne

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How Netlify, Splice, Code Climate, and more use engineering metrics

Cody Lee

Leslie Cohn-Wein

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How to foster data-driven tech leadership

Carlos Coelho

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Thoughts on kickstarting observability

Thom Duran

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Four ways to empower your team through data

Hillary Nussbaum