The Art of Distraction: Sometimes pulling your focus away from a problem is the quickest way to solve it. Distract yourself temporarily, return with a fresh perspective. #ProductivityHacks #EngineeringTeams

One of the worst mistakes of my career. I failed to manage up, got caught in the 'single metric bias' trap and publically shouted at an exemplary lead engineer.

I wrote up the story in the hope it helps anyone faced with the same situation avoid the same mistake.

https://thelittlestcto.com/blog/you-dont-care-about-quality-a-story-of-single-metric-bias

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There are many factors to consider when building highly effective software engineering teams. One common element is optimizing collaboration. This is a quick example of being able to reduce the amount of parallel work being done by a team (the work in progress or WIP limit) to try and create a culture around working together on tasks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/c-bY8YevZBI

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