Catastrophic Mistakes Are a Team Failure

If people can make catastrophic mistakes on your team, the process is broken. ...

April 20, 2026 · 2 min · Jake Worth

How I Run a Fully-Remote Software Engineering Standup

I’ve been participating in fully-remote software standups every day for over a decade, and over the past two years, leading them, too. Here’s how I run the best standup meetings that I can. ...

March 4, 2026 · 5 min · Jake Worth

Running Great Refinement Meetings

This year I’ve run over 25 Scrum refinement meetings; here’s what I’ve learned. ...

December 1, 2025 · 4 min · Jake Worth

Being the Third Engineer

I was the third engineer hired by my company, not counting our technical co-founder. I like that position, and it seems to play to my strengths. ...

October 16, 2024 · 3 min · Jake Worth

How to Run an Agile Retrospective for Leaders

Retrospectives are one of my favorite engineering team practices. In this post, I’ll explain why and how I run retros. ...

March 15, 2023 · 4 min · Jake Worth

Weekly Summary Technique for Senior Software Engineers

“What did you do this week?” I’ve written a weekly summary for myself and my teams for years. It helps me think through my work and shows people what I’m working on. In this post, I’ll explain how I use this tool. ...

February 4, 2022 · 5 min · Jake Worth