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Day-to-first-PR, day-to-first-deploy, day-to-unblocked. Teams that measure onboarding speed ship faster. Most teams measure nothing.

PR turnaround time is the most undervalued engineering metric. Here's how to cut it from days to hours without sacrificing quality.

Bad commit messages don't waste seconds. They waste hours, weeks later, when you're debugging an incident at 2am.

Most teams use feature flags wrong. They become permanent if/else branches that calcify into chaos. Here's the discipline that fixes it.

A playbook is only useful if a stressed engineer can follow it half-asleep. Here's the structure that survives real incidents.

On-call is a tax on your team. Done badly, it's the reason senior engineers quit. Here's the rotation design that actually works.

Every 100 lines of diff doubles the time to merge. Here's why, and what to do about it.

Story points don't predict delivery. Velocity charts don't measure velocity. Here's how to plan engineering work without the agile cosplay.

It's not the meetings. It's what the meetings mean. The fix isn't fewer meetings—it's meetings with actual stakes.