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Essays on engineering leadership, team effectiveness, and building software organizations.

• Will Humans Still Review Code? The critical question companies must answer now
  February 17, 2026
• The Engineering Manager's Areas of Responsibility What exactly do they have to do?
  July 31, 2024
• Team Principles How should your team work?
  July 6, 2024
• Engineering Management Basics Where do we start from?
  July 4, 2024
• Success as an Engineering Manager What is an Engineering Manager trying to achieve?
  July 4, 2024
• Podcast — Balancing Engineering Alignment with Autonomy A conversation with Joe Levy from UpLevel about focus, writing, and achieving alignment at scale.
  May 9, 2024
• All You Need is Focus When the normal is to be distracted, focus is the main advantage a team can have
  April 11, 2024
• Ownership as a Skill for Engineering Managers Whether you think you can or you think you can't — you're probably right.
  February 24, 2024
• Podcast — When Systems are Properly Designed, Individuals will Thrive A conversation about my career from Brazil to NYC and how to think about systems when managing a software team.
  November 6, 2023
• Podcast — From Code to Leadership: Mastering the Software Development Lifecycle A conversation with the Better Tech Leadership podcast about thinking about quality across the software development lifecycle.
  October 30, 2023
• Avoiding Bureaucracy in Software Teams How to make process improvement effective
  August 25, 2023
• Podcast — How to lead engineering teams efficiently? A conversation about managing engineering teams efficiently and common challenges EMs encounter.
  August 10, 2023
• Strategy for Engineering Managers What is the next move?
  August 8, 2023
• Podcast — Have Engineering Leaders Become Too Hands-off? A conversation about engineering effectiveness, systems thinking, micromanagement, and how to think about teams vs. individuals.
  July 20, 2023
• To Write or Not to Write (Code)? What does it mean to be technical, and how it helps Engineering Managers
  July 3, 2023
• Planning Engineering Projects Effectively The database schema is not what you should worry about
  May 10, 2023
• Product Management for Engineering Managers Your best contribution might be outside of engineering
  April 24, 2023
• Engineering Leadership Tactics: Resilience Through Collaboration Building stronger software engineering teams
  April 16, 2023
• Using Metrics in Software Engineering Management Principles for measuring it right
  March 27, 2023
• The Effective Engineering Manager Focusing on what matters most
  March 20, 2023
• The Times Are Changing in Software Engineering How we can make the most of it?
  February 20, 2023
• Engineering Leadership Tactics: Mind the Input How an engineering team's performance is defined by the work they take in
  January 30, 2023
• Engineering Leadership Tactics: Finding Focus Making your software engineering team work less and deliver more
  January 13, 2023
• Engineering Leadership Tactics: Building Alignment How to find buy-in as an Engineering Manager?
  December 14, 2022
• Engineering Leadership Tactics: Circle of Influence How to achieve change with less effort?
  December 1, 2022
• The Engineering Manager's Tools What is in a manager's toolbox?
  October 20, 2022
• Influencing as an Engineering Manager How to make change happen
  September 27, 2022
• The Systems within a Software Team A brief insight into what is affecting your team's results
  September 12, 2022
• There is always a System Why systems thinking matters and Engineering Managers should care about it
  September 8, 2022
• Leading Software Teams with Systems Thinking How Systemic Leadership can help your engineering team
  August 18, 2022
• Project Leadership and Collaboration How project leadership practices affect team collaboration
  August 11, 2022
• The Big Tech Way Why copying big tech companies might not be the best strategy
  August 10, 2022
• Engineering Leadership in Action A framework for Engineering Management
  July 26, 2022
• Leading as an Engineering Manager
  July 20, 2022
• Managers, keep your focus
  October 3, 2021
• Team and Individuals
  August 19, 2021
• Why does Process Matter?
  June 28, 2021
• Forgetting Management
  May 10, 2021
• Improve it! Running an Effective Software Team
  April 12, 2021
• Punching Above your Weight
  September 29, 2020
• What should Engineering Managers do?
  July 15, 2020
• Make it Faster with Slow Decision Making
  June 30, 2020
• Tell Me How You Measure Me
  May 18, 2020