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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business Review

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Build a ‘Quick and Nimble’ Culture

Harvard Business Review

As human beings, we like to operate in small tribes. One cultural tool you describe in the book is bosses who provide a “user manual” to their quirks—sort of an FAQ to how to deal with them. I tend to think of organizations as eight-cylinder engines, and in every organization you ask: “How many cylinders are actually firing?”

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