The Unreachable Engineering Managers

A few years ago, my team joined two other teams to work on a big project for the quarter.

Feb 17 • Anton Zaides

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The Software Games: Endless Grind

What if your career was an RPG?

Feb 10 • Anton Zaides

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7 Slack hacks for engineers and managers

(Or Microsoft Teams if you are unlucky)

Feb 3 • Anton Zaides

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January 2026

Who does what and how to support them

Engineering Management in a sentence

Jan 20 • Anton Zaides

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December 2025

A Scientist’s Guide to Debugging Engineers

Too often, I see smart engineers making their own lives much harder than they need to be.

Dec 23, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire

A few months ago, I wrote about 13 software engineering laws, which are observations about how software projects behave.

Dec 16, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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The 'delayed opinions givers' - engineering teams everybody hates

What happens when you always put your own work first

Dec 2, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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November 2025

Shadow work in engineering teams

And the price your team pays for it

Nov 18, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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October 2025

Give your engineers a kingdom

In too many teams, everything goes through the Engineering Manager.

Oct 28, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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The price of mandatory code reviews

Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering

Oct 21, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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Engineering velocity on steroids

What a 10x team looks like

Oct 14, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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Build your engineering team like a dungeon party

What's your ideal engineering team mix?

Oct 6, 2025 • Anton Zaides

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