Better Managed Development

About the Better Managed Development Framework

Have you wondered, marveled even, at the effectiveness of “big tech” companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google etc? What makes them tick? How are they so sought after, bring so many high-quality products to market? How are they able to motivate a global, distributed workforce to continue pump out industry-defining products at scale?

Is it their gargantuan engineering budget?

No, it’s their engineering culture. 

Based on our combined decades of experience as software engineers and engineering leaders from startups to Fortune 100 companies, we’ve developed the industry’s first framework for better managing a technical organization’s culture.

Better Managed Development

Better Managed Development is a framework to define the specific People, Processes and Tools to address the cultural challenges facing the modern software engineering organization. After the mold of the Agile framework, we provide this framework as a method for engineering leaders to take deliberate control of specific aspects of how they do business.

Focused fundamentally on

• Bottom-Up Leadership
• Ownership

The Better Managed Development framework will help you properly define playbooks for how

Non-management:

1. 1. Collaborate with each other
   2. Collaborate with management
   3. Engage with strategic initiatives
   4. Exercise their autonomy for the benefit of the business
   5. Grow on the job as technical experts

While management:

1. 1. Supports the autonomy and growth of software engineers
   2. Promote healthy relationships with partners of the engineering organization
   3. Break down silos in the organization
   4. Maintains guardrails and controls that ensure their organization’s culture remains strong and healthy

BMD integrates perfectly with Agile, Shift-Left and OKRs to bring you a framework that bridges the gap between management and engineers to provide a singular alignment and buy-in that no other framework provides.

With BMD you can define a blueprint for your organization to scale your leadership capacity, while maintaining high levels of engagement, retention and attraction of talent.

You too can curate high-tech engineering culture for a fraction of the cost to “big tech” companies.