December 23, 2025
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Widening the scope of considerations can help get rid of noise and remove team hurdles.
As engineers, we are trained to reason about resource allocation, failure modes, observability, and lifecycle management. Yet when we switch to leading teams, many of us abandon that rigor and rely instead on gut feel or borrowed process frameworks. The result can lead to teams that feel sluggish, brittle, or mysteriously overloaded.
However, by making more deliberate choices, leaders will find that their approaches to organizational design, technical debt, and operational maturity are a lot smoother.
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December 23, 2025
