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Scott Triglia

Building consensus iteratively with feedback spirals

Build consensus the agile way Wouldn’t it be better if we treated feedback like we do agile engineering projects — getting feedback early and often instead of in a huge big-bang at the final approval step?

Delegating safely and successfully

A normal fear about delegating is whoever you give it to might not know how to do it well. A bad response is just to avoid delegation! A normal fear about delegating is whoever you give it to might not know how to do it well. A bad response is just to avoid delegation! I like to hack around this by

If it isn’t scheduled, it won’t happen

I’ve had a pretty good run of writing something (internally, for Yelp) every week for a while now, averaging ~3 posts per month since…

Publish independently and publish often

I’m going to be syndicating posts off www.locallyoptimal.com, my personal blog, onto Medium In fast succession: Medium locked down distribution, I read Fred Wilson on the value of being self-sufficient, and patio11 helped me find ways to bootstrap a low traffic personal blog.

Ask the Tech Lead: How should I approach simplifying a complex system?

How do I identify what parts of my system are essential vs accidental complexity? Once identified, how do I remove accidental complexity? How do I identify what parts of my system are essential vs accidental complexity? Once identified, how do I remove accidental complexity?

Ask a Tech Lead: I have to make a technical decision but I can’t know the right answer

What’s the right approach when I need to make a big bet but have little guarantee of the right call in the end? What’s the right approach when I need to make a big bet but have little guarantee of the right call in the end? How can I choose confidently even when the cost of mistakes is high?

Building self-healing, observable systems with AWS Step Functions

Modern highly-distributed application architectures solve real problems, but they bring with them novel challenges. Knowing what is…