Maximal effort, minimal impact: How I learned what engineering guidelines should be like

1 · Antonio Martinović · Oct. 13, 2024, 8:42 p.m.
At a point in my past I’ve found myself working in a somewhat successful startup, it seemed successful because we were hiring more and more engineers and the scope of work and number of teams kept steadily increasing. Somewhere in the middle I realised our engineering staff needed a set of engineering principles and a progression framework that would act as a north star for my fellow team members to follow describing how to navigate the chaotic theatre of war that is a start up tech company. I’v...