Recently at Nordhealth we embarked on a re-skin of our entire application: a visual uplift of the whole product to bring it into 2026. These kinds of changes have a big blast radius and are inherently risky, but we championed the individuals to be bold, working across any surfaces that needed an uplift. Generally speaking, it worked: they delivered, and the application now looks better than it has in years. However, because we had changed […]
Over the last decade, much has changed in the role of engineering management. Through the 2010s into the peak of Covid in 2021, for many, the role began to optimize for one thing. That one thing was moving information around. Managers translated context upwards from the team and decisions downwards from leadership, honing their craft on smoothing the friction between individuals and their priorities and whims, and dancing around ceremony-heavy ways of working. Sometimes it […]