Posts tagged culture.
Every agent company hires from the same labor pool. You and your competitor employ literally the same workers: the same frontier models, refreshed quarterly by the same vendors. Raw capability is identical by construction.
As engineering teams grow from 5 to 50+ people, leadership responsibilities naturally expand beyond what any single person can effectively handle. Yet many organizations struggle to identify exactly what types of leadership they need to scale successfully.
Slack Analytics are a powerful tool for understanding the way your company communicates. How and where your team chats is a pillar of your overall team communication structure. Conway’s Law states the following:
In any company (small companies especially), it’s easy for leaders to get busy. Rushing between planning meetings, standups, retros, and one-on-ones, then trying to squeeze in some dev work as well.
A little excitement in your job is usually a good thing. It could be learning a new development language, preparing to release a new feature, or taking on new responsibilities as part of a promotion. That’s great for most jobs, but not operations.
When I started my development career, I thought I was hired to write feature code. What else is there to building a product? I only now realize how wrong I was.