Nov 12, 2022Balancing Tech and Product, Building Tech Strategy and OKRsWho isn’t familiar with the problem of reducing tech debt while having ambitious product goals? It happens in every company. In the past year we’ve tackled this at Kry using different methodologies that helped our engineers to continuously get rid of the tech debt and create very little new debt…Tech Strategy4 min readTech Strategy4 min read
Published in Better Programming·Nov 12, 2022How We Work With ScrumLearn how it’s done the right way and what great things can happen as a result — “Scrum is an old way of working, meant to solve problems from another era. An organization working with continuous deployment doesn’t need it. There aren’t versions of the code. There’s no meaning to sprints. You are members of a cult with ceremonies that lost their meaning”. This tweet, by an…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
Nov 12, 2022What is Psychological Safety and Servant Leadership and Why it’s ImportantIn the past two years I’ve learned about the importance of these two values for engineering culture and high-performing teams, and I’ve found that like me, many great leaders and engineers practice these values or aspire to work in an environment that embodies them, but aren’t familiar with the terms…Psychological Safety4 min readPsychological Safety4 min read
Apr 3, 2022The Learning LibraryHow to create a recommendations database for professional growth in R&D — I’m excited to share our experience of creating a learning library for Kry’s R&D organization. What is it good for? We created this library to complement our development plans: they contain, for each topic that the employee wants to improve, a few columns, and one of them is resources they will use to grow in…Engineering3 min readEngineering3 min read
Mar 6, 2022Preparing Your Direct Reports for Performance Review Season4 Exercises you can do with your team — If you work for a medium-large tech company, you probably had your yearly performance review cycle recently. We had it at Kry recently, and all employees received great preparation material from HR: a recorded session about how to use the tools, how to give feedback and how to avoid biases…Performance Reviews5 min readPerformance Reviews5 min read
May 16, 2021Finding Your Next Job — a Friendly FrameworkI was recently looking for a new job, and I’ve found a place I feel deeply that is the right place for me. Perhaps it’s the best fit among the 7 attempts in total that I’ve had with finding a good workplace for myself. It’s no coincidence. It was also…Job Hunting1 min readJob Hunting1 min read
Jan 30, 2021What We Expect From Software Developers on Each LevelI described in a separate post details about the process we’ve been doing recently in our engineering department, where we started working with levels for our engineers and QA. After discussions in our tech directors forum and review of the expectations by every member of our department, we ended up…Engineering Mangement5 min readEngineering Mangement5 min read
Jan 30, 2021How We Introduced Levels to Our Engineering Organisation without Losing People or Hurting Our ProductivityWhy The good thing about levels, is the transparency. When it’s clear to people what’s expected of them, stress goes down. It’s much easier to give frequent feedback with reference. “Remember that expectation from the list? I think you can improve in it by doing this and that”. With frequent feedback…Management And Leadership6 min readManagement And Leadership6 min read
Aug 30, 2020Our Bike Trip in the Stockholm ArchipelagoThis was written by me and my spouse, Yoav Luft.Vacation9 min readVacation9 min read
Dec 1, 2019All You Need is FrictionLeaders in tech companies, this post is for you. Two weeks ago we started a wonderful tradition: the weekly morning coffee for engineering managers in Stockholm. We are a forum of leaders in engineering who want to grow our skills and network. During the introduction round, one participant said that…Tech6 min readTech6 min read
