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Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

Apr 13

A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should…

Sep 21, 2021

What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details.

Apr 7

A guest post from newsletter writer Eric Newcomer.

May 11

Layoffs, rescinded offers, hiring freezes, hiring slowdowns and a realistic look at the market.

May 19

A deep dive with five Technical Program Managers (TPM) on what the role is, how it evolved, and how engineers and managers can benefit from working with…

Feb 15

Introducing levels after 25 years, return to the office 3 days a week, hiring freezes and layoffs.

Apr 28

Writing is an increasingly important skill for engineering leaders. Poor writing can hamper career progression, above a certain level. Tactics for more…

Jan 18

What impact will the war have on the European tech scene, and on international companies?

Feb 27

Off-cycle compensation increases, a data engineer shortage and low-cost regions becoming too expensive.

Nov 18, 2021

Circular dependencies in the Roblox outage, being a principal engineer at Amazon, fraud detection utilizing JIRA, and more.

Feb 3

A broad and deep dive in how Facebook / Meta works, from the perspective of SWEs and EMs.

May 10

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