The Engineering Manager

This week we are going to take a deep dive into constraints: one of the most powerful tools that you have as a leader to help your team deliver more with less. Now, this isn’t the first time that we’ve written about constraints, so if you’re interested in some history: We looked at Parkinson’s Law back in 2024, which is the classic anti-pattern that occurs when people are given too much time (or no deadline at all) […]

Over the last few months, I’ve been writing about a number of factors that AI — specifically LLMs — are changing the way the role of management works. If you haven’t read the previous posts, then they are as follows, in descending order of publication: I’m always trying to find new ways to use LLMs because it’s both useful and a lot of fun. One of the unsurprising elements of being a CTO is that the […]