I already hinted at this topic in my last Tech Tuesday, when I wrote about having a healthy mix of young and more experienced engineers. More general...

I already hinted at this topic in my last Tech Tuesday, when I wrote about having a healthy mix of young and more experienced engineers. More general...

Last Tech Tuesday I wrote that the companies which do well on hiring engineers are the ones that “prioritize both hiring *and* having a great work en...

Last Tech Tuesday I wrote that the companies which do well on hiring engineers are the ones that “prioritize both hiring *and* having a great work en...

Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about the importance of having backups and testing whether you can restore from them. While this sounds like something ever...

Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about the importance of having backups and testing whether you can restore from them. While this sounds like something ever...

For startups, backup is a lot like security, something you need to have but not something that’s really visible to endusers or that endusers even car...

For startups, backup is a lot like security, something you need to have but not something that’s really visible to endusers or that endusers even car...

I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mi...

I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mi...

I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: w...

I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: w...

The last two posts on Tech Tuesday were both about growing your engineering organization. Someone wrote to me saying: it’s all well to talk about bes...

The last two posts on Tech Tuesday were both about growing your engineering organization. Someone wrote to me saying: it’s all well to talk about bes...

… to come to the aid of their country. Here is a supremely depressing chart from Businessweek showing the professional backgrounds of the members of ...

… to come to the aid of their country. Here is a supremely depressing chart from Businessweek showing the professional backgrounds of the members of ...

Several of the past Tech Tuesdays have been about topics that often get short shrift in startups, including security, backup and disaster recovery pl...

Several of the past Tech Tuesdays have been about topics that often get short shrift in startups, including security, backup and disaster recovery pl...

Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest ha...

Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest ha...