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What Waiting in Line Teaches About Your Quarterly Planning Process

Years ago, I joined a startup that was building towards the initial launch of their first product. They had a vision and had been working…

May 5, 2020

What Waiting in Line Teaches About Your Quarterly Planning Process

May 5, 2020

Jeff Ammons
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One Medical Technology

Evolving the One Medical Leveling Guide

Leveling guides have become a popular tool for engineering teams in recent years. While they have existed longer at a few larger companies…

Dec 3, 2019

Evolving the One Medical Leveling Guide

Dec 3, 2019

Jeff Ammons

Start unsubscribing for Digital Minimalism

I was recently reminded of a post I stumbled on last year by Cal Newport entitled, On Digital Minimalism wherein he lays out principles of…

Nov 17, 2018

Start unsubscribing for Digital Minimalism

Nov 17, 2018

Jeff Ammons

How I Use Journaling to Capture Ideas and Build New Habits

I realized a few years ago that two of the smartest and most successful people I know took notes on everything. Both used notes heavily to…

Nov 11, 2018

How I Use Journaling to Capture Ideas and Build New Habits

Nov 11, 2018

Jeff Ammons

Three Ways to Hit Your Deadlines

One of the most unfortunate things we learn in school is that due dates are sacrosanct. When your paper is due, that’s it. Anyone trying to…

Jan 24, 2018

Three Ways to Hit Your Deadlines

Jan 24, 2018

Jeff Ammons

Overcoming Engineering Indifference: Your engineers should meet your customers

I recently found myself in the pastel-yellow lobby of a non-profit for which I am consulting. The room bustled with activity between…

Jan 9, 2018

Overcoming Engineering Indifference: Your engineers should meet your customers

Jan 9, 2018

Jeff Ammons

How I Stay Focused in a World of Distractions

I have a bad addiction to internet browser tabs. At any given time, I have 2–3 Chrome windows open, often with 20+ tabs per window. There…

Jul 30, 2017

How I Stay Focused in a World of Distractions

Jul 30, 2017

Jeff Ammons

Reading List for Engineers who want to be Product Managers

Some years ago, after working as technical co-founder at a startup that failed to take off, I decided I need to learn more about product…

Jun 13, 2017

Reading List for Engineers who want to be Product Managers

Jun 13, 2017

Jeff Ammons

Closing agile sprints without demotivating engineers

In his book, Payoff, Dan Ariely describes an experiment he ran to study motivation. Participants are given a meaningless task to find pairs…

Nov 22, 2016

Closing agile sprints without demotivating engineers

Nov 22, 2016

Jeff Ammons

Maker Time at Brigade

Every software company I’ve ever worked in has had the same complaint from the engineers: “I have too many meetings.” While this may be the…

Feb 10, 2016

Maker Time at Brigade

Feb 10, 2016

Jeff Ammons

Jeff Ammons

Fixing healthcare in engineering leadership at One Medical. Formerly at Slack, Brigade, and Mahalo. I love building things and effective systems.

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