RRandi W21h ago · 9 min readWhen your team gets called a blockerSooner or later, every team that's good at its job hears it. Someone in the business goes to a VP and says the team is "being a blocker." The VP comes back to the team, and the message is short: stop 2Asalesforcegirl.hashnode.dev
DDebashish Ghosal23h ago · 7 min readWhy Forward Deployed Engineers Are Suddenly Hot: The Death of the Centralized AI GuildWhy Forward Deployed Engineers Are Suddenly Hot: The Death of the Centralized AI Guild TLDR: The AI guild shipped a prompt library, a portal, and a brown-bag schedule. The tribes shipped nothing diff1Apragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev
MMarius-Florin Cristian1d ago · 1 min readLeading security at two startups in a row, both acquired about two years after I joinedI joined Krizo in 2019 as a 24-year-old software engineer, and Omnio in 2020 as its CISO. Dataminr acquired Krizo in early 2021 and IBM acquired Omnio in 2022, each about two years after I joined. Thikeibidrop.hashnode.dev
TTarek Mostafa3d ago · 12 min readThe Product Management Framework for AI Products: A KU Leuven Professor's AssessmentClassical product management frameworks—discovery, delivery, iteration—assume that software behavior is deterministic and completely specifiable before deployment. AI products break that contract entitarekmostafa.hashnode.dev
SSandeep KashyapOct 21 · 10 min readHow to manage cross-team dependencies“Any update on this?” If your project depends on another team, you’ve probably sent that message more than once. Maybe you’ve even reworded it a few times in the same week to avoid sounding impatient.sandeepkashyap.hashnode.dev
JJustin PenningtonOct 20 · 4 min readThe Founder Who Still Ships: What Staying in the Codebase Buys a Small Software TeamSomewhere around year three of running a software consultancy, most founders close their editor for the last time. The calendar fills with sales calls, hiring, and partner meetings, and writing code s11Sjustinpennington.hashnode.dev
DDebashish GhosalOct 19 · 7 min readThe Emissary Strategy: Deploying FDEs Across Internal Tribes Without FrictionThe Emissary Strategy: Deploying FDEs Across Internal Tribes Without Friction TLDR: Send a Forward Deployed Engineer into a product tribe with executive authority behind them, and the tribe will smilpragmatic-engineer.hashnode.dev
RRandi WOct 18 · 9 min readHeroics are not a deploy planThe first coordinated deploy I watched closely wasn't a big one. A site was moving from being hosted in our CRM to being hosted by IT, and a few teams had to line up to make it happen. It was my first4AAsalesforcegirl.hashnode.dev
FFaishal WahiduddinOct 18 · 4 min readTwelve Hours Apart: Leading DoCheck's Engineering Team From the Other Side of the PlanetFrom 2021 to 2023 I was CTO of DoCheck, a productivity SaaS with a 20+ engineering team in Indonesia. I was in Orlando, finishing an M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida on a faishalwahiduddin.hashnode.dev
MMenuke de SilvaOct 16 · 6 min readThe Consent Step Didn’t Disappear. It Became Friction.Something has quietly gone missing from my meetings this year. Nobody asks if they can record. A few years ago, recording a call came with a small ritual. Someone would say “do you mind if I record th1Smenuke.hashnode.dev
