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What 90% of engineering leads get wrong
The real job of engineering teams is creating value, not just code.
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Piotr Kacała

September 2023

🥃#6 - Digital Product Cards preview, Framework for making big career decisions, Aging Code, Senior → Staff Engineer and more
Welcome to this week's edition of 🥃 Whisky on the Blocks, highlighting the latest updates to Product Cards and the best findings for the week.

August 2023

Product Cards Update - New cards, new design, release plan
Getting you up-to speed with the current state of Product Cards.
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Piotr Kacała
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🥃#5 - Event Storming, CTO’s framework to manage your priorities and energy, How to start Continuous Discovery and more!
Welcome to this week's edition of 🥃 Whisky on the Blocks, highlighting the latest updates to Product Cards and the best findings for the week.

July 2023

🥃#4 - Organizing Product Teams, Passing Any First-Round Job Interview, On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Netflix’s “Dream Team” Model, and…
Welcome to this week's edition of 🥃 Whisky on the Blocks, highlighting the latest updates to Product Cards and the best findings for the week.
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Piotr Kacała

May 2023

S.P.A.C.E. Framework - The Ultimate Framework For Measuring Your Tech Team Productivity
The SPACE framework allows you to measure and understand team productivity from five dimensions: Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Communication, and…
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Piotr Kacała
Announcing Product Cards - A Game Changer for Tech Teams
As leaders and managers, we face many challenges in our daily work. The most common questions we need to answer are: Which problems to solve first…
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Piotr Kacała
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April 2023

The End of Managers? What Big Tech Flattening Means You and the Industry
The tech industry is undergoing a major transformation as some of the biggest names are flattening their organizations and getting rid of managers. Will…
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Piotr Kacała
Ship It Today: #kudos appreciation channel
Here is an idea you can start and finish today - a public #kudos appreciation channel for your team or your company.
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Piotr Kacała
55 books that helped me reach C-Suite and Management Board
Looking to take your career to the next level? Read those.
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Piotr Kacała
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February 2023

Manager 101: How to 10x the Performance of Your Best Employees Using Expectation Agreement Technique
The Secret to Unlocking Your Team's Full Potential: Using Expectation Agreements to Build Trust, Increase Accountability, and Empower Success
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Piotr Kacała
Netflix's Strategic Pyramid case study ↔️ Mission → Vision → North Star → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap
Get better at prioritizing and improve your business results. Reduce your fear of strategy. Get inspired to build your own Strategic Pyramid with…
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Piotr Kacała
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