Catastrophic Mistakes Are a Team Failure

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

April 20, 2026 · 1 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 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 to use this tool. ...

February 4, 2022 · 4 min · Jake Worth