How Do I Measure AI Software Development Tool Usage?


A spreadsheet view of AI coding tool subscriptions with named owners, monthly cost, and token-per-merged-PR columns.

A tutorial: run a Python tool to inventory AI coding tool spend, assign owners, and set a token-cost-per-merged-PR baseline you can defend in a budget review.

Fundamentals of Technical Leadership


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Learn the fundamentals of technical leadership: credibility, vision, communication, empowerment, and decision-making that turn engineers into leaders.

Fundamentals of Software Development Operations


Diagram showing how software development intersects with operational excellence: development velocity, system reliability, operational visibility, and cross-functional coordination working together to support business operations at scale.

How software teams impact operational excellence. A developer's guide to understanding operations from a COO's perspective.

Fundamentals of Program Management


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Learn program management fundamentals: coordinating multiple projects, managing interdependencies, and aligning work with strategic objectives. Understand why programs exist and how they work.

Fundamentals of Software Business Management


Diagram showing software business management fundamentals including planning, organizing, leading, controlling, and strategic management interconnected in a workflow.

Understand why software business management works: how planning, organizing, leading, and controlling create effective software organizations and when each function matters most.

Fearless Change Summary: Patterns for Leading Change


Fearless Change summary: Linda Rising and Mary Lynn Manns' patterns for introducing change, winning support, and working through resistance.

The Culture Map Summary: Erin Meyer's Eight Scales


The Culture Map summary: Erin Meyer's eight scales for communicating, trusting, deciding, and disagreeing across cultures, and how to apply them.

What Are My Professional Principles?


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Professional principles that guide my work as a software development leader: technical excellence, business alignment, and people-first collaboration.

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Summary: John Maxwell Book Review


The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership summary: John Maxwell's laws, which ones hold up in practice, and what to do with them.

A Leadership Philosophy


Silhouette of a head beneath a glowing lightbulb, surrounded by leadership icons for teamwork, direction, and growth, titled A Leadership Philosophy.

A leadership philosophy from a Principal Engineer: eight principles for leading teams with authenticity, humility, and trust.

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Learn Rendanheyi to rethink how you run your business in the world of constant change. Do you need a micro-enterprise?