Culture
Early Reflections on Buffer’s Switch to Working Without Managers 5 minutes read.
Interesting retrospective from Leo on their newest experiment at Buffer, moving toward a no-managers approach. If you haven't read the story of their transition yet, check the link inside of the post "There’re no managers or bosses". I must admit that their Decision Maker Framework is interesting to experiment with, even inside an engineering organization - instead of having dedicated managers around specific domains, what if you could have decision makers, creating a flat organization based on meritocracy?
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The Case for Distributed Teams 7 minutes read.
Avleen Vig (from Etsy) with a wonderful post on how to approach building a distributed team, even if the entire company is not distributed. This was actually written in a response to Paul Graham's essay (on changing immigration laws), but I feel that it's worth reading even without that context. "The success or failure of a distributed team hinges on your organisational culture and the strengths of management, not on the product you're creating or the nature of distributed teams themselves."
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Don’t Leave Developers in the Dark 4 minutes read.
Justin Jackson brings some nostalgia back (gosh, I miss playing video games), as he explains why it's imperative to keep our engineers in-sync with the entire strategy of taking their code into the customers' hands. Are you making it easy for the engineers in your team to understand how their effort translate to the business's success? If you were to ask different engineers in the team "why are you building this feature?", what would be their answer?
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