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Paying down management debt without burning out
Frankie Nicoletti gives practical advice for triaging, prioritizing, and taking effective action to pay down your management debt while honoring your work/life balance.
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Equipping your team to support junior developers
Aisha Blake discusses actionable steps for building junior-inclusive practices through active reflection, sustainable processes, and a focus on empathetic communication.
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Don’t squander your inheritance: expert advice for taking over existing teams
Camille Acey and Stacy Justino talk us through their experiences, challenges, and best practices as well as sharing the strategies and resources they used in the cases where they had to "turn the ship around".
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Instilling the built-in quality mindset into a dev team
Larissa Rosochansky and Rafael Cintra look at how we, as Technical Leaders, can help our teams to understand that quality is not the QA’s work, and must be distilled in every action, every line of code, every single little commit the team does.
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Level up your code reviews
Denise Yu gets us thinking about code reviews in terms of different lenses to help engineers of all experience levels build a vocabulary for seeking and providing feedback in a healthy, thoughtful, and collaborative way.
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Software estimation – embracing nuance and controlled chaos
Karl Sanford explains how to embrace nuance, control chaos, and begin to confidently deliver on your commitments.
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The Map Book: Visual Storytelling With Roadmaps
Tadeh Hakopian looks at what is possible using an illustrative Roadmap to tell a story and inform your team on all the critical details in an intuitive and fun way.
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Sunsetting legacy systems: a story by Netflix
Marek Kiszkis tells a story of a 2-year-long deprecation of a legacy system that used to support several crucial parts in Netflix’s signup and account management space.
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Effective observability in microservice architectures
Lesley Cordero focuses on which observability practices and microservice architecture patterns align well and set microservice organizations up for success.
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Why most technology migrations fail (and what we’ve learned along the way)
Jai Chakrabarti shares learnings (and misses) about how we were able to move molehills and, in some cases, mountains while preserving engineering velocity and a sense of ownership and autonomy.