Fritz Hut | Thoughts & Commentary https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Your Team’s Documentation Is Bad Because It Has No Continuity Editor Why Technical Decisions Made in Meetings Without Engineers Are Not Technical Decisions The Difference Between a Startup That Ships and a Startup That Talks About Shipping The Problem With Tech Lead Roles That Are Management Without the Title The Interview Gauntlet: Why We Test for Everything Except the Job Why Your Incident Postmortem Process Is a Better Metric Than Your Uptime How to Handle the Engineer Who Knows Everything and Will Tell You The Meeting Before the Meeting Is Where Your Project Actually Died The Difference Between a Startup That Ships and One That Just Talks About Shipping Why Your Standup Is a Status Page and Your Sprint Planning Is a Support Group The Problem With Hiring Processes That Test for Anything Except the Actual Job Why Your Engineering Team’s Biggest Bottleneck Is the Calendar Why Your Standup Is a Stand-Down: The Case for Async Engineering Your Calendar Is a Bug, Not a Feature: Why Engineering Teams Need Fewer Meetings and More Async Your Team’s Postmortem Is a Plot Generator, and It’s Casting You as the Villain How to Evaluate a Codebase Before You Join the Team The Hardest Problem in Computer Science Is Still Naming Things — And Your Postmortem Titles Prove It Why Your Engineering Team’s Calendar Is a Legacy System That Needs a Rewrite Why Your Engineering Team Needs Fewer Meetings and More Async Communication Why Your Standup Is a Waste and Your Slack Is a Graveyard of Half-Truths Your Calendar Is a Scam: Why Engineering Teams Need Fewer Meetings and More Async Your Calendar Is a Buggy Blocking Call: Why Async Is the Only Sane Default How to Give Feedback That Changes Behavior Without Destroying Trust Why Your Architecture Decisions Are Only as Good as the Documentation Around Them How to Evaluate a Codebase Before You Join the Team That Owns It Why Most Engineering Teams Need Fewer Meetings and More Asynchronous Communication The Hiring Gauntlet: Why Your Dev Interview Tests for the Wrong Species The Shipping Gap: Why Some Teams Deliver and Others Just Talk About It The Interview Gauntlet: Why Your Hiring Process Tests for Everything Except the Job How to Give Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior Without Nuking Trust How to Give Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior (Without Making Everyone Hate You) The Problem With Hiring Processes That Test for Everything Except the Actual Job Your Feedback Is Broken. Here’s the Fix. Your Hiring Process Is a Circus, and You’re the Clown How to Evaluate a Codebase Before You Join the Team (and Why Most Engineers Skip the Hard Parts) Why Your Team’s Code Review Culture Is a Better Indicator Than Your Code How On-Call Rotations Reveal What Your Team Really Values The Difference Between a Senior Engineer and an Engineer With Ten Years of Experience How to Run a Meeting That Does Not Make Everyone Wish They Were Coding How Most Engineering Dysfunction Starts Before Anyone Writes Code Why the Best Engineering Teams Have Arguments and the Worst Have Silence How to Spot a Toxic Engineering Culture Before You Accept the Offer Standups Are Just Mini Performance Reviews and I’m Tired of Pretending They’re Not Your Pager Knows You Better Than Your Manager The Brutal Gap Between a Senior Engineer and an Engineer With Ten Years of Experience Why Your Sprint Is Already Screwed Before the First Line of Code How to Run a Meeting That Doesn’t Make Everyone Wish They Were Coding The Problem With Measuring Engineers by Lines of Code or Commits Why Most Technical Debt Is Actually Organizational Debt Your Architecture Decisions Are Only as Good as the Documentation Around Them