My good friend Mustafa a Director at Shopify, has some good advice for Sonos on the recent rewrite fiasco.
2022
Great companies maintain their insurgent mindset, for fear of becoming complacent and irrelevant over time.
Push decision making down to single-threaded DRIs
Single-threaded is tech jargon that simply means solely focused on a single area. The single threaded DRI is the most senior person whose only job is to run a given product or initiative, this will typically be a product management or engineering leader.
Leverage shared services to minimize duplication
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lessons for Engineering Managers in Software.