Links tagged “management”
28 links, newest first.
mindtheproduct.com
How prompt engineering is teaching us to communicate like product leaders
hbr.org
The Right Way to Sunset a Project
tomtunguz.com
The Rise of the Agent Manager: author explores how individuals handle (or struggle) managing multiple AI agents
cutlefish.substack.com
An argument that teams should extract the principles behind how companies like Basecamp or Intercom work, rather than copying their practices wholesale.
calv.info
Eight lessons from Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen on the early stage — setting goals, communicating with investors, launching, and holding focus.
benbrostoff.github.io
Habits for surviving multi-month projects — staying optimistic, logging daily progress, trusting compound gains and protecting dedicated time.
firstround.com
The W Framework, a four-step planning loop where leadership sets context, teams draft proposals, leadership integrates them into one plan, and teams commit to it.
unixism.net
Guide for engineering leaders weighing Kubernetes — where the technology came from, whether the organisation is ready, the usual pitfalls, and a phased rollout.
engineeringblog.yelp.com
Yelp's checklists for posting and reviewing code changes — pick the right reviewers, keep diffs small, self-review first, and answer within a day.
martinfowler.com
Argues for funding software as long-lived product teams owning a business problem, rather than as temporary projects with a predefined scope.
angel.co
Sam Altman on why joining a fast-growing company is a good career bet, and how hypergrowth startups should approach hiring.
rework.withgoogle.com
Google's collection of research, practices and tools for hiring, managing people and building teams.
firstround.com
Fidji Simo's practices for keeping product work tied to intent — weekly reflection blocks, quarterly calendar audits and staffing checks against stated priorities.
firstround.com
Todd Jackson's framework for hiring product managers: the qualities to look for, the candidate profiles worth considering, and the interview questions that surface them.
5pi.de
Argues that a company should keep its core and customer-facing software in-house, and that the teams building services should also operate them on self-service infrastructure.
qz.com
Argues that programming is solitary, concentration-heavy work that open floor plans wreck, contrasting Stack Overflow and Fog Creek with Facebook's campus.
georgestocker.com
Inventory of what wrecks a programmer's focus — open floor plans, interruptions, notifications, stress — paired with the countermeasures a developer can apply alone.
jimcollins.com
Summary of the research behind Good to Great — the flywheel effect, disciplined people, the Hedgehog Concept and the stop-doing list.
blog.crisp.se
Jimmy Janlén announces his work-in-progress book collecting the visualisation techniques agile teams use on their boards.
talkingquickly.co.uk
Sixty-three pieces of startup advice a founder would give his younger self, on shipping, customer development, team and business fundamentals.
