/Management

When To Delegate, When To Say No

- Lara Hogan tl;dr: “As a leader… if you spend all your time trying to stamp out fires, you’ll never be able to look ahead, strategize, or actually grow and evolve.” Lara walks us through the Eisenhower Matrix, which maps importance and urgency, and how that defines which tasks to delegate.

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Introducing The Modern Guide To Secrets Management. Keep Your Secrets In Sync Across Environments, Servers, And Teams With Doppler.

tl;dr: We’ve distilled our knowledge and experience in helping enterprise customers redefine how they think about secrets management by taking a universal approach to taming secrets sprawl in a multi-cloud microservices world at enterprise scale. In this ebook, learn the pitfalls and best practices of secrets management at scale. Learn More Here. 

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Software Deployment, Speed, and Safety

- Marc Brooker tl;dr: Deployment is a contentious issue. Some folks will believe that “teams have to be able to deploy from commit to global production in minutes” and “others will point out that their industry has multi-year product cycles.” Marc highlights the trade-offs, provides his perspective and his advice navigating the tension between speed and safety. 

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To Share The Work, Share The Decisions

- Jessica Kerr tl;dr: “To do something together, build shared understanding and then everyone can make compatible decisions. The old style of imposing a single person’s mental model on the group doesn’t work in complexity (and also it’s mean).”

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Finding Your Leadership Style

- Sally Lait tl;dr: “In this post I’ll run through a whistlestop tour of the concept of leadership, and share some of the prompts that I’ve used to help people navigate this tricky topic.” Sally provides us with 5 prompts to help us hone in on what our personal leadership style.

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Developing A Values Interview Question

- Jacob Kaplan-Moss tl;dr: A company’s core values are important to consider when hiring but, how do you develop an interview question that measures those values? Jacob outlines 3 things: (1) Describe how the value influences action. (2) Figure out what behaviors are behind the value. (3) Find a situation where this value would influence behavior.

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Take Our State of Startup Security Survey

tl;dr: Are you a manager or decision maker in your organization? We want to hear from you! Take our first annual State of Startup Security Survey and (anonymously) share how your organization prioritizes security, what your scaling looks like, and how you unblock startup challenges. 

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Beautiful Technical Debt (2022)

- Rinat Abdullin tl;dr: “What looks like a technical debt in a software solution, might be the most efficient way for people to deliver business value in a given situation. There is a beauty in that, if observed from a distance.”

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The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make

- Zach Lloyd tl;dr: "The biggest mistake I see engineers make is doing too much work on their own before looping in others." This costs time and creates the risk of going down the wrong path. Managers can help: (1) Encourage engineers to show work as quickly as possible. (2) Help them decide what to show that provides meaningful feedback. (3) Encourage launching something end-to-end internally, quickly. (4) Encourage constructive feedback & watch for toxic feedback, which discourages iterative development.

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Building for Enterprise: User Provisioning

tl;dr: Automatic user provisioning and deprovisioning via SCIM is often one of the second features, after single sign-on, that engineering teams need to build in order to sell to larger customers. Imagine how difficult it'd be for IT admins to manually add/delete access to your app for hundreds of employees when they join or leave the company. We explore how it works, how to add it to your app, and best practices for implementation.

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