Simon LabuteA Crash Course in Getting Project AlignmentThere’s a delightful art in taking a project idea, getting a bunch of people to agree on the direction, and then executing on it.Sep 4Sep 4
Simon LabuteTell me I’m StupidI was explaining my latest bright idea to a colleague and he piped up “that’s utter nonsense, it’s not a problem we need to solve”. He was…May 281May 281
Simon LabuteConstraining Yourself Into SuccessTales from a procrastinator — how to make yourself and your teams productive.Mar 4Mar 4
Simon LabuteOKRs for dinner with GrandmaThe next quarter was creeping up fast and so we began the dance of crafting OKRs to capture the business outcomes we were trying to…Dec 22, 20231Dec 22, 20231
Simon LabuteHow to Propose Work as an EngineerHow to pitch your ideas so that your leadership listens and they actually get into roadmap.Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023
Simon LabuteModelling Joy in Dev VelocityI was leading the developer happiness team which was really just the developer productivity team and we were chatting about upcoming…Sep 21, 2023Sep 21, 2023
Simon LabuteinSamsara R&DWhy you should invert your feature flags in testsMost testing frameworks default feature flags to “off”. In fact you should do the exact opposite.Jun 14, 2023Jun 14, 2023
Simon LabuteinSamsara R&DHow we prevented missing SQL indexesAt Samsara, we fixed an issue where we were having occasional outages from deploying new code that would inadvertently issue unindexed SQL…Apr 26, 2022Apr 26, 2022
Simon LabuteinSamsara R&DThe Change in Testing that Reduced Mobile Release Bugs by 93%How we reduced our escaped bugs at release by 93%, while also reducing manual testing time by 97.5%.Dec 1, 2021Dec 1, 2021