Shadow work in engineering teams

And the price your team pays for it

Nov 18 • 

Anton Zaides

35

1

1

October 2025

Give your engineers a kingdom

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

Oct 28 • 

Anton Zaides

33

6

The price of mandatory code reviews

Challenging the unwritten law of software engineering

Oct 21 • 

Anton Zaides

71

13

7

Engineering velocity on steroids

What a 10x team looks like

Oct 14 • 

Anton Zaides

57

9

5

Build your engineering team like a dungeon party

What's your ideal engineering team mix?

Oct 6 • 

Anton Zaides

61

7

7

September 2025

The EM’s guide to AI adoption (without your engineers hating it)

You were told to adopt AI in your engineering team. So where do you start?

Sep 30 • 

Anton Zaides

34

1

What's next for manager.dev and for me

A personal update about my career break, the newsletter and the future.

Sep 23 • 

Anton Zaides

45

44

6

$7B startup Head of Engineering and dad of 5 builds a profitable side project

Today is the 4th and final article in the ‘EM-builder’ series.

Sep 16 • 

Anton Zaides

39

8

3

3D No-Code, nights and weekends - a director of engineering’s side project

Today’s article is the 3rd (out of 4) in the EM-builder series!

Sep 9 • 

Anton Zaides

19

2

1

Building a $5K ARR Side Project While Managing 9 Engineers

Today's guest article is the 2nd one in the ‘EM-builder series’!

Sep 2 • 

Anton Zaides

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Taylor Barr

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9

1

August 2025

How an EM’s Side Project Reached 1,800 GitHub Stars

The next four articles are going to be a bit different - a series of guest posts by Engineering Managers who built side projects while working…

Aug 26 • 

Piotr Osiński

33

2

1

10 simple internal tools any EM can build in under 2 hours

Had enough of Cursor code-thrashing?

Aug 19 • 

Anton Zaides

36

5

2