Gonzalo🇦🇷🇳🇱

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Hot take: what is holding back most companies in becoming better at tech is that their leaders - CEOs, CTOs, VP Engs - have never worked on high-performing software teams as an engineer. Their understanding of "best in class software teams" will always lag behind reality.

I hear you asking, dear reader, how this miracle came to pass. How did chrome-team manage to deliver high quality software without death marches? Funny you ask... Turns out that software projects actually benefit strongly from having senior technical leadership deeply involved.

This! 👇 I recently described it 3 levels of (complex system) knowledge: L1: Knowing how a system works L2: Knowing why this system works this way L3: Knowing why this system doesn't work in some other way L1 is in code, L2 is in docs, L3 often only in people's heads.

Read the thread. Many good points. Some predictable ones. Story points are not inherently evil. Like many things, tools came become weapons in the wrong hands. If you want to see more of my thinking, see my experience report agilealliance.org/resources/…

🙌 My best advice is to timebox it. So if you want to do extracurricular dev, do it the hour before you start work. Then when work is done, say 5-6pm, literally leave. Go out somewhere for dinner or a walk, or I just murder a bottle of red wine.