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Stories and advice for dev leaders, written by dev leaders. How to scale your team, which metrics to use, how to grow your career… even how to explain software development to your CEO (hint: very carefully 😉 )

Our greatest hits . . .

The Pull Request Paradox: Merge Faster by Promoting Your PR

Engineering Metrics Benchmarks: What makes elite teams?

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Being VP of Engineering is Harder than Being CEO

Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me

9 Engineering Productivity Tools to Improve Your Team

Jason Williscroft March 24, 2022

There’s much more to running a software development project than writing great code! Your tech stack is a pile of programming languages, frameworks, test suites,

How to Easily Revert Git Pull Requests

Carlos Schults March 23, 2022

If you’re new to Git, “revert pull request” is something you might not know you’ll need to do eventually. Learn how in this post.

How to Calculate Cycle Time

Hannah March 22, 2022

Time is a critical resource in every work environment that determines how people and processes interact. It’s also a key element of engineering efficiency and

Pull Request Best Practices: Our Tips

Carlos Schults March 21, 2022

Pull requests often go wrong. Learn and adopt our list of pull request best practices so that doesn’t happen to your team.

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How to Measure Technical Debt Before You Start Tackling It

Carlos Schults March 18, 2022

Learning how to measure technical debt will allow you to make sound decisions when thinking about software quality. Learn how in this post.

How to Do Code Reviews Better

Brandi M. March 17, 2022

Code reviews have become a vital part of the software development process. They improve code quality, developer performance, and save development teams time. But only