https://yeohbraddy.com/tags/product-development/Recent content in Product Development on Hi, I'm BraddyHugoenMon, 06 Oct 2025 21:52:32 +0100https://yeohbraddy.com/posts/four-pillars/Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://yeohbraddy.com/posts/four-pillars/<p>Recently at work, I started a recurring monthly session focusing on growing engineers, especially younger engineers. These sessions are mostly focusing on career advice, principles, and tools to make engineers more effective.</p> <p>This session focused on how to increase impact and demonstrating that impact.</p> <p><em>A small disclaimer before we continue, (good) advice is fuzzy because it entirely depends on the person receiving it.</em></p> <h4 id="four-disciplines">Four disciplines</h4> <p>In software engineering, there are four disciplines:</p>https://yeohbraddy.com/posts/speed-is-a-feature-why-moving-fast-improves-quality/Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://yeohbraddy.com/posts/speed-is-a-feature-why-moving-fast-improves-quality/<blockquote> <p>“Speed and quality aren’t at odds - they’re often positively correlated.” - Nan Yu, Linear</p></blockquote> <p>When I first started out as an engineer, I assumed that “moving fast” meant rushing, cutting corners, or skipping due diligence. Sure, sometimes it does if you’re careless. However, over time, especially working in a startup environment, I’ve learned something that surprised me:</p> <p>Speed can actually improve quality.</p> <p>Not in a reckless way, but in a focused, practiced, high-feedback-loop kind of way. The best engineers and teams I’ve worked with move quickly because they care about quality. They know what matters, what can wait, and how to learn through iteration. They don’t aim for perfect upfront. They aim to learn fast and improve continuously.</p>