[Joe Woods]

This is good, actionable advice:

"As an engineering leader, you should be constantly working to reduce the amount of time it takes to complete one cycle of a feedback loop.

What do I mean by feedback loop? This is anything where you do work, and then you need to await a result in order to be able to do more work."

Some of these will be easier than others to obtain: for example, any engineering team can tune up their test suite without the permission of an outside party. What they might have more trouble with is getting an outside stakeholder to commit to just-in-time availability; I imagine that a weekly touch-base meeting might be the norm in many non-engineering-centric organizations. But they're all important, and all very concrete ways to both improve performance on an engineering team and improve the experience of working on one.

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