Notes From the Other Side of a Title Change

1. Part 1

   Returning to individual contributor work after eight years in management

   I stepped back from an engineering director role to write code again. Here is what surprised me, six months in.

   Adrian Costa

2. Part 2

   The postmortem template is not the point

   Most incident postmortems fail for the same reason: the template becomes the deliverable instead of the understanding it was supposed to produce.

   Adrian Costa

3. Part 3

   The interview question I stopped asking, and what replaced it

   For years I asked candidates to design a system on a whiteboard. I stopped, because it was measuring the wrong thing.

   Adrian Costa