Sitemap - 2024 - Refactoring

Startups vs big tech, proactive work, and QA ๐Ÿ’ก

The Best of Refactoring in 2024! ๐ŸŽ„

Handbooks, customer calls, and company mission๐Ÿ’ก

Introducing Coaching at Refactoring! ๐Ÿชด

Hypergrowth, the power of love, and agile values๐Ÿ’ก

Managing up โฌ†๏ธ

Impostor syndrome, spotify model, and the three pillars ๐Ÿ’ก

Profitable Engineering โ€” with Aviv Ben-Yosef ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

From Engineer to Manager to Director ๐Ÿ“ˆ

AI coding tools, managers' productivity, and tech debt ๐Ÿ’ก

Code Quality in the Age of AI โœ…

Salary reviews, status tools, and observability ๐Ÿ’ก

Generative culture ๐Ÿชด

Motivation, open source, and side projects ๐Ÿ’ก

Thinking, Fast and Slow ๐Ÿ“™

Conway's Law, reviews' scope, and dev process maps ๐Ÿ’ก

The Evolution of Engineering Management โ€” with Pat Kua ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Navigate your Career ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Complexity, principles, and code quality ๐Ÿ’ก

Career Frameworks for Engineers and Managers โ€” with Francesco Dominidiato ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Create an Engineering Handbook ๐Ÿ“–

Loops, coaching, and indicators ๐Ÿ’ก

Your dashboards are probably doomed ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ

Public goals, career frameworks, and books๐Ÿ’ก

Technical Storytelling at Google โœ๏ธ

Survey: how do you use metrics to work better? ๐Ÿ“Š (win $150!)

Simplicity, strategy, and scraping ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Talk with Customers ๐Ÿ“ž

Impostors, pairing, and tech debt๐Ÿ’ก

Communication Engineering โ€” with Pramoda Vyasarao ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Working with Squads ๐Ÿช–

On triangles, missions, and questions ๐Ÿ’ก

Predictions about AI ๐Ÿ”ฎ

Diversity, accomplishments, and docs ๐Ÿ’ก

Founder Mode & The Manager's Path โ€” with Camille Fournier ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to do QA in 2024 ๐Ÿงช

Trials, sport teams, and motivation ๐Ÿ’ก

A 25-Year Career Retrospective ๐Ÿ”

Tech salaries, staging promotion, and money management ๐Ÿ’ก

Merchants of Complexity โ€” with DHH ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Become a Product Engineer ๐ŸŽจ

Work loops, causes of stress, and calibration ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Deal with Insecurity and Impostor Syndrome ๐ŸŽญ

The status update trap, Tuckman's four stages, and technical strategy ๐Ÿ’ก

Continuous Coordination โ€” with Henry Poydar ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Web Scraping Fundamentals โ€” use cases, tech, and ethics ๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ

Systems thinking, book summaries, and decision making ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Craft your Vision and Mission ๐Ÿ”ญ

Code reviews, the map is not the territory, and making staging optional ๐Ÿ’ก

Danaโ€™s Journey, Hiring Engineers, & AI โ€” with Dana Lawson ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Personal Finance for Engineers ๐Ÿฆ

On spider graphs, splitting ICs and EMs, and good relationships ๐Ÿ’ก

The Pyramid of Motivation ๐Ÿ”บ

Onboarding, leading skilled engineers, and observability๐Ÿ’ก

The Power of Influence โ€” with Irina Stanescu ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Keep Stakeholders Aligned ๐Ÿ“ฃ

The W framework, startups vs big tech, and agencies ๐Ÿ’ก

An Elegant Puzzle ๐Ÿ“˜

Retrospectives, feedback, and anticipating tech debt ๐Ÿ’ก

Code Reviews, AI, and Modern Engineering ๐Ÿ” โ€” with Greg Foster

An Engineer's Guide to Linkedin ๐Ÿ’ผ

Hierarchies, bottlenecks, and high-leverage time๐Ÿ’ก

How I Read Books ๐Ÿ“š

Iterating is hard, good reviews are not surprising, and EMs can actually code ๐Ÿ’ก

How Vercel Works โ€” with Malte Ubl ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Deal with Salary Reviews ๐Ÿ’ฐ

Glass swords, moving fast and breaking things, and advocating for quality๐Ÿ’ก

Good Tech Strategy / Bad Tech Strategy โ€” with Anna Shipman ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Thoughts on Code Reviews ๐Ÿ”

Team structures, writing comfort, and task-relevant maturity ๐Ÿ’ก

Elements of an Effective Software Org โ€“ with Rebecca Murphey ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Lessons from our Mastermind sessions ๐Ÿง 

Migrations, skip-level 1:1s, and Notion vs GDocs๐Ÿ’ก

Scaling Teams at Sanity, Github, and Google โ€” with Rachel Potvin ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

The Refactoring family is getting bigger! ๐Ÿš€

Distributed spaghetti, metrics frameworks, and SOPs ๐Ÿ’ก

How Perplexity Works โ€” with Denis Yarats ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Stay Technical as a Manager ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Hiring processes, finding space for side projects, and freedom vs rules ๐Ÿ’ก

Facebook, Dropbox, and Modern Engineering Teams โ€” with Aditya Agarwal ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

How to Create an Engineering OS for your Organization ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

Feedback loops, QA, and abstractions payoff ๐Ÿ’ก

How Engineering Management is Changing in 2024 ๐ŸŽฝ

On referrals, product engineers, and bootstrapping ๐Ÿ’ก

Observability & Testing in Production โ€” with Charity Majors ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

The Right Amount of Management ๐Ÿ‘Œ

Code quality, knowing what's good, and competition ๐Ÿ’ก

Engineering Productivity & Developer Experience โ€” with Laura Tacho ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

The Top 10 Lessons from our Podcast Guests ๐Ÿฅ‡

Engineering productivity, career frameworks, high-velocity product dev ๐Ÿ’ก

Small Bets for Engineers โ€” with Daniel Vassallo ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

The Definitive Guide to Technical Debt ๐Ÿฆ 

๐Ÿ’กCynefin, team-first, and web3 dependability

No Rules Rules ๐Ÿ“•

Startup risks, praise-to-criticism ratio, TPMs ๐Ÿ’ก

Refactoring Spring Update ๐Ÿ’

The pyramid principle, markdown diagrams, and removing friction ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Become a Successful Manager ๐ŸŽฝ โ€” with Thiago Ghisi (Nubank)

The Startup Healthcheck ๐Ÿฉบ

Advocating for technical work, pair programming FAQs, and threat modeling ๐Ÿ’ก

It's Rarely about the Tech ๐Ÿ‘‘ โ€” with Andrew Weaver (CTO Academy)

The State of Engineering Productivity in 2024 ๐Ÿ“Š

Hosting LLMs, scoping like IKEA, and the Eisenhower Matrix๐Ÿ’ก

Good Communication for Engineers ๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€” with Wes Kao (Maven, altMBA)

The Tech Talent Acquisition Landscape ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Impact is a fallacy, the 3X framework, and more mental models ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Build a High Performing Engineering Team ๐Ÿ—๏ธ โ€” with Maria Gutierrez (Personio, Twitter)

Introducing the Refactoring Mastermind! ๐Ÿง 

On quitting, cycle time vs velocity, and a tech checklist๐Ÿ’ก

Should you Start a Startup? ๐Ÿš€

Decision types, building trust, and WFH setups ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Improve Developer Productivity ๐Ÿ“ˆ โ€” with Kathryn Koehler (Netflix)

The Power of Pair Programming ๐Ÿ‘ฏโ€โ™€๏ธ

Sources of Power, remote bandwidth, and ROI of ceremonies ๐Ÿ’ก

Running a Remote Big Tech ๐Ÿข โ€” with Farhan Thawar (Shopify)

How to Create a Good Release Process ๐Ÿšš

๐Ÿ’ก Agile manifesto, divergence & convergence, career frameworks

The State of Software Engineering ๐Ÿ”จ โ€” with Kent Beck

Should you use Scrum in 2024? ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

Onboarding with 1:1s, dependencies, and personal workspace ๐Ÿ’ก

Integrating AI into Products and Teams โ€” with Disheng Qiu (Translated) โœจ

Mental Models for Engineers and Managers ๐ŸŽฒ

Meeting buffers, naming files, and RAG systems ๐Ÿ’ก

The World Builder Framework โ€” with Aadil Maan (Humane) ๐ŸŒŽ

Trillion Dollar Coach ๐Ÿ“•

Mandatory on-call, career autonomy, and network calls ๐Ÿ’ก

Leading and Human-ing in 2024 โ€” with Lena Reinhard

My Work-from-home Setup in 2024 ๐Ÿช‘

Engineering investment, systems vs goals, and LLM use cases ๐Ÿ’ก

Introducing the Refactoring Podcast!

Impact culture, web3 layers, and tech debt effects ๐Ÿ’ก

How to Plan and Execute Software Projects ๐Ÿšข

Productive constraints, QA mindset, and first wins ๐Ÿ’ก

New Tools and Techniques for 2024 ๐Ÿ“ก

Interest clubs, maintenance cycles, and personal work ๐Ÿ’ก