Alex Ewerlöf

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Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth. Click to read Alex Ewerlöf Notes, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Coding is not solved

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Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt

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Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

Broken Ownership

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In the ownership trio, we discussed 3 elements: Knowledge, Mandate and Responsibility. This article digs into various broken ownership scenarios where 1-2 of those elements are missing, what are the common symptoms and how to fix them.

When a team is too big

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What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset