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Hello!
This week’s blog post explores a concept from workplace safety as it relates to engineering team health. It’s called:
The post summarizes a few years of experience I’ve had on different engineering teams. I’m forever in search for what makes certain teams click when it comes to product health.
A Book?
Recently, I’ve been pressure-testing the idea of writing a book. The working title is “Corporate Finance Fundamentals for Software Engineers.”
The goal is would be to give software engineers a basic overview of how the financial heart of their businesses work. This should help with project selection, awareness of the business, and hopefully better-performing businesses. On a more selfish level, I hope it results in quicker promotions and more well-rounded engineers.
I’m collecting a list of questions I want to answer in the book, including:
- Why is the question “Is the company profitable?” complicated?
- Why does SSH-ing into a production machine hurt the profitability of the company?
- Why are software engineers paid so much?
- What does sustainable revenue look like?
- Why is SaaS so much different than every business type before it?
- Why are finance ideas applied to software engineering (e.g. “technical debt”), and how accurate are they?
If you have more burning questions in this realm, please send them my way.
Until next week!