Engineering Leadership

Engineering Leadership, Processes That Work, Tutorials

Still Doing Everything Yourself? Here’s Why That’s Slowing Everyone Down

Work Through Your Team, Not Around Them If you’re stepping into engineering leadership—or already there—you’ll eventually face a hard truth: you can’t do it all yourself. Not even close. The Shift From Doer to Enabler Early on, you can juggle both. You’re hands-on, reviewing PRs, cranking out fixes, shipping features and managing your small team. […]

Engineering Leadership, Mental Models

The #1 Trait of a Great Engineering Leader (At Any Level)

If there’s one trait that defines strong engineering leadership—whether you’re a team lead, EM, or CTO—it’s this: Follow-through You could call it consistency, dependability, ownership or trust. But at its core, it means this: When you say you’ll do something, people can count on it getting done. Period. That doesn’t just mean writing code or