Archive - Sorry Engineering by Rafal Makara

How to write in Jira Dashboards?

Jira Dashboards might be powerful. Especially with a few plugins.

May 21 •

Dealing with injustice

Everyone knows Radical Candor by Kim Scott.

May 14 •

How to talk about Tech Debt work?

Some people say it is hard to convince product managers to work on tech debt.

May 8 •

The Five Tribal Stages

Many great books are no longer super popular today. One of them is Tribal Leadership (2011) by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright. It brings…

May 6 •

Yyyy, ammm and no

Many suffer from “yyyy” when speaking. To unlearn it, the technique used at Toastmasters International (clubs for practising public speaking) is to use…

May 3 •

April 2024

World existed before Metrics

There’s a saying:

Apr 12 •

March 2024

Shape Up, Composing the teams

It is one of the articles in the Shape Up series. For Table of Contents go to: How to make Shape Up successful? In many of Basecamp's writings, they…

Mar 30 •

October 2023

Managers Should Test The Product

When I was working with Piotr (my boss) and Ola (my peer), we came up with the single thing that differentiated good managers from bad ones in our…

Oct 19, 2023 •

Looking at old articles is fun. If my old thoughts were precisely aligned with what I think today, that would be a sign of not evolving.

Oct 16, 2023 •

September 2023

How to compose the first private message?

Only a few companies have decided to get rid of instant messaging. Most use Slack, MS Teams or Discord.

Sep 25, 2023 •

Engineering Culture, or...

I am not a fan of saying: there is (no) Engineering Culture at a company.

Sep 18, 2023 •

Shape Up, Planning the execution - How?

It is one of the articles in the Shape Up series.

Sep 11, 2023 •

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