Erin Sardo covers what makes a good Release Captain including topics like how to think about rollout stages, rollback strategy planning, environment planning for sustained QA, cross-functional dependencies like help content and customer service traffic, delegation and aggregation.

Davy Stevenson talks about how communication is a critical part of the engineering process but is not usually treated as something to be engineered or optimized. Let’s take some time to talk about how we as managers can build effective meetings.

Melissa DePuydt tells her own story of developing early leadership experience by running toward scrappy work on high-performing engineering teams at The Washington Post and The Atlantic, and I’ll share what I’ve learned about the importance of “scale” efforts in growing others and sustaining myself in my work.