Engineering Leadership
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What People Say
“Jono is the manager every engineer hopes to work for at least once in their career.”
“Jono may be the most talented technologist I've worked with in my long career.”
“Jono has been my greatest professional accelerant. He provided the framework I needed to grow into a technology leader.”
“A natural born leader ... working with Jono was a masterclass in drive with insane depth of knowledge.”
“Jono excels at building teams and solutions from zero to one.”
“Jono propels any team he is a part of.”
Latest Writing
They Feel Like Guilt
Great pay. Smart coworkers. Reasonable hours. Generous PTO. You list all of that and think 'I have no right to feel this way.' But you're still staring at your laptop at 2pm unable to write a single line of code. The 'objectively good job' is the hardest burnout to escape. Because there's nothing obvious to blame.
The Hockey Stick That's Destroying Your Team
90 points becomes 120. 120 becomes 150. By Q4 you'd need 500 points a sprint to stay on track. Nobody questions the math because nobody wants to look like the person who can't keep up. If your velocity chart looks like a hockey stick, you don't have a productive team. You have a team that learned how to survive your metrics.
Everyone Knows Except Leadership
120 points completed. Leadership sees progress. Meanwhile every engineer in the room is staring at the same screen thinking the same thing. That number is fiction. Not because anyone lied. Because the system was never designed to tell the truth about what engineering actually does.