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Credible Engineering Leadership Skills

Credible Engineering Leadership Skills

Like many web engineers who have built teams as their startups have grown, I do not have an MBA.   If you are like me in-so-far as you value management practice over theory, you probably learned to bootstrap & scale as a leader without one. That hasn't stopped me from developing my own theories.  Reading this quora thread on why many engineers detest their management reminds me, I have Read the article >>
Startups @ Scale: Make the abstract actionable

Startups @ Scale: Make the abstract actionable

This post is pretty technical. If you don't cross your 1s or circle your 0s, then it's probably best to move on to something more fruitful for you, business monkey. I've always thought that a major challenge in building a dev team is continuously improving how effectively you can respond to changes in your metrics day-to-day. One of those tasks I face is a sweep daily of our error logs. If you, Read the article >>
Startups @ Scale: Log Everything, then you can Manage Anything.

Startups @ Scale: Log Everything, then you can Manage Anything.

One thing that hasn't changed during the span of my time at Ignighter is the importance of our in-house analytics.  Ever since our first lecture at Techstars 2008, when we were prodded to "obsess over core metrics", we've been obsessed with our usage data.  Having the right information on-demand is essential to being nimble in your decision making as a management team "If you aren't measuring it, Read the article >>
Startups @ Scale: Building an early warning system

Startups @ Scale: Building an early warning system

I've been thinking how much things have changed lately at Ignighter.  We're starting to get some press, a bunch of daily registrations, and a bunch more messages piping through our once-rinky dating website.  It's beginning to feel like we're not such a small startup anymore. When milestones like those pass, it really changes the way your team builds software.  These days, I'm obsessed with building Read the article >>