Greg Tidanian

Dec 10, 2024 | zaidesanton.substack.com | Anton Zaides |Greg Tidanian |Raviraj Achar |Andrew Chen

95% of engineering managers wish to write more code, but feel they just can’t. Today I’m going to share 2 ideas you can implement with only a few hours a week, that will be a hugehelp for your dev team. One is from an EM in my company, who created a very cool internal ChatGPT that knows our Confluence, GitHub readme files, and public Slack channels. Join 15k+ engineering leaders for weekly(ish) articles on managing software teams!The second one is from a task I did myself a few weeks ago.

Nov 22, 2024 | medium.com | Greg Tidanian

Greg Tidanian·Follow5 min read·--The classic philosophy of product development exploredIn 1988 an email titled “Eating our own Dogfood” was sent by Paul Maritz, manager at Microsoft to his colleague Brian Valentine. Valentine’s was a test manager and as people may guess, the email was encouraging the internal use of their own product.

Sep 22, 2024 | medium.com | Greg Tidanian

Founding teams without Chief Technical Officers (CTOs) find themselves having to justify to investors, stakeholders and even users why they lack a technical leader. The concern of potential stakeholders is valid, as they are looking to build technology without someone who has a technical background in their core team. The reality is for small teams and pre-seed startups it’s common for a couple, family or group of friends to have an idea they are excited about and decide to pursue it.

Aug 9, 2024 | medium.com | Greg Tidanian

Whether you have changed a TV channel, or used a washing machine, you would have come into contact with firmware in some form or another. Firmware can be considered a dark-art, however it becomes more digestible when explained as part of its electronics system. When looking to build an electronics device, it can be useful to understand how the electronics and firmware interact with one another.