I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”

Knowledge loss

When a subject matter expert (SME) leaves your team, how do you avoid knowledge loss? What common mistakes to teams make?

Just rewards?

How should you feel about the annual rewards you received? What should you expect?

Do you feel lucky?

How do you improve your chances of success? Why consider luck when evaluating people and situations?

I wasn't aware

Why are awareness posters, training, and trinkets mostly ineffective? How do you convert these campaigns into action?

No time like the present

How does responding immediately provide you with essential slack time? How can eschewing prioritization help you prioritize?

Productive power sharing

When a project has multiple leaders, how do you quickly make aligned decisions that stick? Who has final say without abusing that power?

How to pay off (technical) debt

How do you pay off technical debt before a catastrophic failure? How do you convince management to invest the time?

Break the ice blocking your job search

How do you expand and utilize your network to land a new role you love? Why is applying online so unlikely to succeed for an experienced engineer?

High on high potential--drunk on a fallacy

What skills should engineers develop? How should hiring manager prioritize candidates?

What’s this now? Dealing with ambiguity

How do you estimate deliverables, prioritize assignments, design solutions, choose implementations, and verify requirements when there’s no authoritative source to tell you the right thing to do and the right way to do it? What do you do when the experts disagree?