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Junior PM: I'm struggling with my engineering manager. He keeps pushing back on everything I propose. Senior PM: What's your relationship like with him? Junior PM: Honestly? Pretty tense. He thinks I don't understand technical constraints. Senior PM: Do you? Junior PM: I mean... I try to, but I'm not an engineer. Senior PM: That's not what I asked. Junior PM: I don't know. Maybe not deeply enough. Senior PM: Here's what most PMs miss about difficult stakeholders. Junior PM: Tell me. Senior PM: Their pushback isn't personal. It's information. Junior PM: What kind of information? Senior PM: About where your plans will fail in reality. Junior PM: So he's... helping me? Senior PM: His resistance is a technical reality check. What if you treated it that way? Junior PM: I'd ask more questions instead of defending my ideas. Senior PM: Like what? Junior PM: What technical risks am I not seeing? What would make this easier to build? Senior PM: And then? Junior PM: He might actually help me make better plans. Senior PM: But here's the deeper issue. Junior PM: What do you mean? Senior PM: You said he thinks you don't understand technical constraints. Junior PM: Right. Senior PM: Do you show empathy for his role? Junior PM: I... don't know what you mean. Senior PM: When you walk into meetings, are you thinking about what would make his job easier? Junior PM: Usually I'm thinking about what I need from him. Senior PM: There it is. Junior PM: So I should focus on his success, not mine? Senior PM: Your success depends on his success. Show him you understand that.

“Norway and Canada are two of the world’s safest places statistically when it comes to violent crime.” Canada named second safest country in the world from violent crime cultmtl.com/2025/02/canada…

@tobi Not really

Good opening. Make Canada Laffer curve optimal

Your brain has been fooling you your entire life. This Nobel Prize winner spent 40 years proving it. Here are the 10 mental traps controlling every decision you make: 🧵

$BCE $BCE.TO ... @Bell why is Bell laying off staff this week without announcing it?? layoffs started today and continue all week long @globeandmail @TorontoStar @nationalpost #firemirko

Jasper this morning.

@allenholub Another angle is that software developers know the process and see others with influence who do not know the process. So is the issue with agile or with the people implementing agile practices incorrectly?

Interesting Poll from LinkedIn 👇. Managers & ppl who make a buck by selling fake Agile™️ think the state of "Agile" is just peachy. The people who are actually doing the work think that it's degraded into a putrid mass of steaming garbage. (I may have exaggerated a bit 😁.)

The Cloud Wars CEO of the Year Is Christian Klein | Cloud Wars Live accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/the…

@waynebeaton I see whatcha did there.

1/ At what level of seniority should you stop giving coding tests in interviews? 🧵

Why do we need Technical Engineering Managers? Below is a list of Lesser-Known Reasons why we need More Technical Engineering Managers: 1- Prevent team members from underperforming due to a lack of opportunities! How? 👇 🧵

@allenholub You fight it with the the inverse Conway maneuver; but that’s more about acceptance.

Nobody fights Conway's Law and wins.

@elonmusk @unusual_whales Give slack stand-ups a try: slack.com/apps/A0L6ELY4E…

@unusual_whales Perhaps not unreasonable to know if anything was accomplished 🫶

BREAKING: Leaked email shows that Twitter employees must send Elon Musk weekly updates of everything they've worked on to 'innovate rapidly,’ per BI.

@elonmusk Negative. Meritocracy is a founding principle of the open source movement.

Twitter is like open-sourcing the news

@waynebeaton ROFL, well done.

@waynebeaton Because everything is an object! Now try a null safety language like Dart.

NASA’s “Project Mercury ran with very short (half-day) iterations that were time boxed. The development team conducted a technical review of all changes, and, interestingly, applied the Extreme Programming practice of test-first development.” craiglarman.com/wiki/downloads…

@allenholub Thoughts on the Inverse Conway Maneuver and DDD?

Conway's Law says the structure of the code reflects the structure of the org. When management arbitrarily reorganizes teams to work on "projects," they are also randomly & arbitrarily changing your architecture. No wonder monoliths in project-thinking orgs are such a mess.

At Tiny, I've hired CEOs for 60+ companies and interviewed hundreds of others. After over a decade of trial and error (and I mean BIG errors), here’s our hiring process: