Project Management

The one thing every experienced engineer gets wrong

In the last few months every engineer I hired stumbled in exactly the same way: Project management. They learned quickly, but that first big project has become a rite of passage.

How *do* you break down a large project? INVEST

Going from Big Vision to Series of Executable Steps is a key skill for senior+ engineers. PMs can help but they don't know everything.

How big up-front design fails

A long design phase without shipping kills many software projects. Here's a story from production I haven't shared before.

Lessons learned after a month of freelancing full time