Ship fast without breaking things

Every team slows down as it grows. More people, more code, more meetings, less shipping. It doesn't have to be that way.

These essays dig into velocity, teamwork, and taming complexity — the engineering side and the people side. They're the thinking behind Scaling Fast, my book on software engineering through hypergrowth.

Essays on shipping fast

3 articles from May 2024 · show all

Validate your assumptions early

here's war story from last summer. I've talked about it in workshops but haven't written it down before. It's for a book I'm working on.

A better roadmap solves many issues

Many engineering challenges start with your roadmap

Get us over the water, not build us a bridge

effective engineering teams should work *with* their product owner/manager, not *for* them