Leemay Nassery
Reframing tech debt
If we bake addressing tech debt into our plans, could it become an opportunity to build abundance into our systems?
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Planning
This issue examines the ever-evolving practices of software planning—and how we can craft plans that enrich communication, alignment, and impact on engineering teams.
James Stanier
Planning for momentum
On reimagining planning as a dynamic and generative process.
Upeka Bee
Planning in the dark
When planning product development before you have product-market fit, continual iteration and getting comfortable with discomfort can help light the way.David Noël-Romas
An IC’s guide to roadmap planning
How individual contributors can leverage their unique perspective to advance alignment and clarity of vision.James Turnbull
A primer on product management for engineers
Breaking down the basics and benefits for engineers looking to manage product development with precision and verve.Melissa Huang
The great tightrope act
By thoughtfully balancing ideas and inputs during the planning process, engineering managers can enrich team impacts and business outcomes.
Vaidehi Joshi
Planning for change with RFCs
How an enduring framework for knowledge-sharing and decision-making helped one team make more informed, egalitarian decisions—and how you can too.
Pete Hodgson
Road to somewhere
By sharing both the route and the destination to our strategic objectives, we can set ourselves up for a smooth planning journey.
Kailash Awati
Software development as a wicked problem
An exploration of the foundational complexities of building software at scale—and why they often distill into human, rather than technical, challenges.Mikio Braun
Tools for people
Considering the complementary—but not all-encompassing—role tooling can play in the planning process.Safia Abdalla
Open-source excursions: The poetry of planning
Reflections on the value of a planning process that emphasizes transparency, empathy, and the people behind the products.Romello Goodman
Planning for pause
As a companion to agile development practices, milestones offer a meditative—and productive—opportunity to decelerate.
Kevin Stewart
How to make pathfinder soup
Like the parable of stone soup, pathfinders can help development teams deliver complex and ambiguous projects, one ingredient at a time.
Victoria Kirst
Just hire great people?
Why enabling growing teams to flourish begins with an examination of our systems—and a well-considered hiring plan.
Ayden Férdeline
Planning for privacy
A look at the proactive practices and perspectives that can help companies center privacy in product development.Ipsita Agarwal
On planning in public
YouTrack’s Elena Pishkova shares how the team plans products in public view and in collaboration with customers.Increment Staff
What planning is like at…
From sprint cadence to success metrics, here’s a snapshot of the planning process at Netflix, Mailchimp, Asana, LaunchDarkly, and more.Hillel Wayne
Planning with flare
On thorny software projects, formal specifications can serve as beacons that illuminate the terrain ahead.
Vicki Boykis
The best-laid plans
Wherein a career in machine learning begins with a virtual turtle, an appetite for literature, and an economics degree…
