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May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, and a lot of new inspirations! Happy New Year!

Wishing you nothing but happiness this holiday season! Merry Christmas from the Coding Sans team.

Three Essential Remote Work Practices for Engineering Teams via Shopify



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Three Essential Remote Work Practices for Engineering Teams It’s been around two and a half years since Shopify became a fully remote-first company. James Stanier shares three tips for succeeding remotely.

When you learn to live your values at work, you transform your career into a powerful path of inspired growth and greatness.

How I Learned to Live My Values at Work | JD Meier Learn to live your values at work to transform your career into a powerful path of inspired growth and greatness.

Measuring software engineers and teams by metrics is fraught with controversy, and rightly so. There are many horror stories of individual developer productivity being measured by Lines of Code, number of commits and other activity-based metrics. This is usually ill-advised, but it doesn’t mean that metrics don’t have a place in software engineering.

Let’s look at a small set of metrics we’ve found useful!

Software engineering metrics that matter Measuring software engineers and teams by metrics is fraught with controversy, and rightly so. There are many horror stories of individual developer productivity being measured by Lines of Code, number of commits and other activity-based metrics. This is usually ill-advised, but it doesn’t mean th...

Key takeaways:
Customer problems aren’t business problems
We can’t directly solve business problems
On time delivery doesn’t lead to customer or business success
Focusing on business success alone is harmful
Focusing on customer success alone is harmful
Aligning our purpose with our organization’s purpose is really what motivates us.

If you understand all that stuff, then, there’s no need to read the article. But, if this isn’t quite landing for you or your teams and you’ve got a spare 15 minutes and some interest, please proceed.

Tension: why product development requires balancing conflicting goals – Help your organization focus on successful outcomes November 7, 2022December 1, 2022 Tension: why product development requires balancing conflicting goals Tl;dr: This article describes the simple language I use to describe product development: opportunity, output, outcome, and impact. But more importantly it describes the tensions and unexpected impl...

What are your preferred ways of giving feedback?

In the times of massive company layoffs it is more important than ever to give and receive valuable feedback that can reinforce whether you’re doing a good job or not. We asked leaders what is their common way to give feedback to their teams:

A model for framing Agility at different levels:
People, Principles, Protocols, Practices, Patterns

The Five P’s of Agility A model for framing Agility at different levels

Autonomy is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in the end. Very often, we only take a self-centered and very narrow view of this situation.

How to prevent your quest for teams’ autonomy from turning into chaos… VP of Engineering in a European scale-up for which the concept of autonomy (of people and teams) is more and more a matter of survival…

Efficient processes play a valuable role in achieving business goals.

However, leaders might fall into the trap of having too many processes for the wrong reasons, and they lose the focus of their teams as a result.

How can you create efficient yet engaging processes?

Find out from our new episode: https://codingsans.com/blog/process-management

How to handle a reorganization as an engineering manager?

How to handle a reorganization as an engineering manager Going through your first reorg as a leader? Here's how to ensure it goes smoothly for you and your team.