How to create good roadmaps - 11 principles and free template

How to build products that customers will fall in love with, instead of a list of random features that your boss is asking you to deliver.

Apr 8 • 

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13:26

March 2025

Team Topologies: How to structure your teams using nine principles and six core patterns for better value

Team Topologies is a set of principles and patterns, introduced by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton, for organizing product, design and engineering roles…

Mar 18 • 

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12:47

The Year of Shipping: Two Big Products

Very soon, I am launching two products that are important to me.

Mar 6 • 

Piotr Kacała

6

2:48

August 2024

8 operating principles that beat any process and framework

How to not drawn in bureaucracy and scale your organization better.

Aug 18, 2024 • 

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7

December 2023

What 90% of engineering leads get wrong

The real job of engineering teams is creating value, not just code.

Dec 5, 2023 • 

Piotr Kacała

5

September 2023

🥃#6 - Digital Product Cards preview, Framework for making big career decisions, Aging Code, Senior → Staff Engineer and more

Welcome to this week's edition of 🥃 Whisky on the Blocks, highlighting the latest updates to Product Cards and the best findings for the week.

Sep 26, 2023

11

August 2023

Product Cards Update - New cards, new design, release plan

Getting you up-to speed with the current state of Product Cards.

Aug 30, 2023 • 

Piotr Kacała

11

1

🥃#5 - Event Storming, CTO’s framework to manage your priorities and energy, How to start Continuous Discovery and more!

Welcome to this week's edition of 🥃 Whisky on the Blocks, highlighting the latest updates to Product Cards and the best findings for the week.

Aug 16, 2023

3

July 2023

🥃#4 - Organizing Product Teams, Passing Any First-Round Job Interview, On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Netflix’s “Dream Team” Model, and…

Welcome to this week's edition of 🥃 Whisky on the Blocks, highlighting the latest updates to Product Cards and the best findings for the week.

Jul 25, 2023 • 

Piotr Kacała

7

May 2023

S.P.A.C.E. Framework - The Ultimate Framework For Measuring Your Tech Team Productivity

The SPACE framework allows you to measure and understand team productivity from five dimensions: Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Communication, and…

May 25, 2023 • 

Piotr Kacała

16

Announcing Product Cards - A Game Changer for Tech Teams

As leaders and managers, we face many challenges in our daily work. The most common questions we need to answer are: Which problems to solve first…

May 18, 2023 • 

Piotr Kacała

12

2

April 2023

The End of Managers? What Big Tech Flattening Means You and the Industry

The tech industry is undergoing a major transformation as some of the biggest names are flattening their organizations and getting rid of managers. Will…

Apr 25, 2023 • 

Piotr Kacała

7