Day: January 5, 2026
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How to plan your engineering team’s capacity
Every team goes through a planning session that ends with a roadmap everyone feels good about, only to reach the end of the quarter having delivered about half of what was promised. Everyone was busy, pull requests were merged, and fires were put out, but the outcome doesn’t match the effort. This gap isn’t about…
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A Practical Code Review Checklist
As an engineering team grows from a handful of people to a dozen or more, code reviews start to change. What used to be a quick exchange between people who knew the entire codebase becomes inconsistent. One reviewer approves with a quick “LGTM,” another focuses on syntax details, while a third questions architectural decisions that…
