Stripe Atlas: guide to scaling engineering organizations

At Stripe, we think a lot about scale. As we’ve scaled our products to process billions of dollars a year for millions of businesses, we’ve also needed to scale our engineering team. There’s a temptation for fast-growing companies to build their engineering team as quickly as possible.

Co-Parenting the Baby: When the VP Engineering Joins a Startup

So the moment comes: you have traction, people are buying the product, and you’re hiring engineers. Maybe your team is ten, or fifty, or a hundred. Up to now, it’s been fine — things got done, perhaps with a few rough edges, but the system got built. But now something’s not working.

Are you a manager? Shut up!

Are you a manager? If so, shut up! Really, just shut up! So many times I see managers that are eager to have their voice heard, it is ridiculous.

What Startups Really Mean By “Why Should We Hire You?”

While whiteboard interviews may catch heat from some people for being impractical or indexing for the wrong qualities, they are not deceptive. Even with the most labyrinthian Leetcode exercise, you don't have to guess at what the interviewer is “really” asking.

You have a micromanaging boss. What can you do?

There are 5 reasons your boss is micromanaging you. Here’s how to manage up, and around them. I’ve heard the phrase, “I have a micromanaging boss,” more times than I can remember. I heard it again, just last week.

Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals

Bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant has spent years researching and interviewing originals. There’s the seasoned chief executive who cusses freely and challenges candidates to apply for jobs by tweeting at her.

How safe was that meeting or workshop you were just in?

Every time we're invited to a meeting or to participate in a workshop or conversation we're either a participant or the convener/leader/facilitator of the session.

Daniel Kahneman: Your Intuition Is Wrong, Unless These 3 Conditions Are Met

Can intuition play a role in investing? According to Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Memorial Prize-winning behavioral economist, no.

The Little-Known Quirk in the Way Our Brain Evaluates Goals

Contrary to popular belief, pursuing a modest positive change is sometimes perceived as easier than maintaining the status quo.

5 Ways Introverted Leadership can make You a Great Manager

You have the chance to ask Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, one question. What would you ask? This happened on an Australian show called Q&A, where Bill Gates was their special guest for an episode.

8 Time-Management Hacks to Optimize Your Life In and Outside Work

Time is everyone’s most valuable and scarce resource. Managing it effectively can be the difference between success and failure. These Advisors in The Oracles share how they manage their day to optimize their business success and personal life.

The Wheel of Change Retrospective

Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world’s leading executive coaches. In his book Triggers, Goldsmith introduces a framework for change that he calls the “Wheel of Change“. This framework provides a great template for a Sprint Retrospective or any similar review for a team or larger group.

Simon Powers on Transitioning to Product Teams and Advice for New Managers

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Simon Powers of Adventures with Agile about helping organisations move from siloed groups to large product teams, he gave advice for new managers and discussed the trends he sees happening

"I wouldn't start from here". How to make a big technical change.

Start out by measuring the thing you need to change. What are your metrics here? If you’re deprecating something, maybe it’s the number of call sites to the thing, or the number of services still using it.

Why Scrum needs Product Leadership

Welcome to the third wave of Agile adoption — an age where organizations  reinvent themselves around self organisation and empericsm, and, if done well, the power trickles down to the people.

Scaling Agile to Create “Frictionless IT”

Creating a modern and flexible operating model for IT is no easy feat. Many technology organizations are still operating as a “service provider” to their business units, rather than a strategic partner.

Which of the OWASP Top 10 Caused the World’s Biggest Data Breaches?

The OWASP Top 10 is a well known index of web app security vulnerabilities which is used every day by security professionals. But one thing is missing from the index—how often are each of these vulnerabilities used by hackers to breach organizations?