Topic

development-plan

A collection of 2 issues

When Planning Becomes the Product

Why execution management matters more than perfect schedules in startups When I was leading engineering teams at early-stage startups, I noticed a pattern that repeats everywhere. Planning becomes the job. The business team sets a deadline. Engineering translates it into a plan. Then the team wakes up every day trying

Code Quality, Technical Debt, and When to Pay It Down

This article follows an earlier post: https://blog.aline.team/when-code-quality-becomes-a-convenient-explanation/ In that piece, I wrote about how “code quality” is often used as a summary, not a diagnosis. This article builds on that idea and focuses on a question founders and engineering leaders ask repeatedly. When is the right