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What is R&D Cost Capitalization and How Can it Help?
Breaking down development costs for your CFO or finance team is probably not why you signed up to lead an engineering team. But it can be strategic for the success of your company, helping increase valuations and attract investment. Learn about how that works and why you should care.
7 Questions CEOs Ask Engineering Leaders
Andrew Lau offers his “CEO Translation Services” free of charge to translate some of the more bizarre questions you’ll hear from your CEO.
The Head of Product: An Engineering Leader’s Strongest Ally
Kate Brigham, VP of Product at Notarize, discusses where the partnership often breaks down between product and engineering leadership and why it’s so important to get this relationship right.
Surprise! Your CEO DOES care about velocity…if they go by @jack
Our CEO and co-founder, Andrew Lau, reacts to what might be a pivotal moment for engineering leaders everywhere. Learn how Jack Dorsey just broke down the barrier between engineering and business priorities.
10 KPIs Technical Leaders Should Know in 2021 Part 4: Progress
In our final installment of the four part blog series on 10 KPIs engineering leaders should be tracking in 2021, we discuss how to measure progress toward the team’s deliverables.
10 KPIs Technical Leaders Should Know in 2021 Part 1: Investment
As an Engineering leader, exactly which data should you pay attention to? What metrics should you be tracking as your team’s key performance indicators (KPIs)? In this series of posts, we will present some of the KPIs that can help technical leaders answer these questions.
Debunking Misconceptions About Engineering Management in 2020
The Jellyfish Data Science team set out to investigate and debunk some of the top misconceptions that executive teams have about Engineering Management and Technical Leadership in 2020.
Technical Leaders! Drive the Roadmap So You Don’t Get Run Over
As an engineering leader you have an essential role to play in roadmap and product planning. Co-founder Phil Braden shares why engineering leadership should be involved for the good of the company.
How Do You Define Tech Debt?
In order to better understand the different ways people think about tech debt, we asked VPE’s for their definitions. Here’s what they had to say.