Rudolf Olah
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For taking notes as an engineering manager, I have found that both Notion and Obsidian are great. I use them for long-form notes or for turning short notes into long-form ones. The links between notes make it easy to refer to past notes about meetings: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Engineering Management Tools: My Top Picks – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
For taking notes as an engineering manager, I have found that both Notion and Obsidian are great. I use them for long-form notes or for turning short notes into long-form ones. The links between notes make it easy to refer to past notes about meetings: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Cause and effect diagrams are useful because they let you list out all the causes that you and/or your team can think of: rudolfolah.com/cause-and-ef...
January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Cause and effect diagrams are useful because they let you list out all the causes that you and/or your team can think of: rudolfolah.com/cause-and-ef...
Checking the performance of your webpack build for React requires checking the CPU usage, the heap memory profile, and the webpack plugins and loaders that are being used in the build.
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Checking the performance of your webpack build for React requires checking the CPU usage, the heap memory profile, and the webpack plugins and loaders that are being used in the build.
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
If you live in Google Calendar, then Google Tasks is a good choice since it integrates directly into the calendar, and like calendars, you can create multiple to-do lists. Tasks are a good reminder for various preparation work for project planning and roadmapping: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Engineering Management Tools: My Top Picks – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
If you live in Google Calendar, then Google Tasks is a good choice since it integrates directly into the calendar, and like calendars, you can create multiple to-do lists. Tasks are a good reminder for various preparation work for project planning and roadmapping: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
When planning software projects with Agile and SCRUM, there are unknowns and uncertainties that will appear throughout the project. How do you plan for this? By using buffers. Buffers are a time-box attached to a larger task that set expectations on the potential time and effort needed.
Buffers and Placeholders in Agile SCRUM Project Management – Rudolf Olah
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December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When planning software projects with Agile and SCRUM, there are unknowns and uncertainties that will appear throughout the project. How do you plan for this? By using buffers. Buffers are a time-box attached to a larger task that set expectations on the potential time and effort needed.
Why guess when you can map it out? Use a Cause & Effect Diagram with your team. Team collaboration leads to a broader range of potential causes and quicker solutions. rudolfolah.com/cause-and-ef...
Cause & Effect Diagrams – Rudolf Olah
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December 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Why guess when you can map it out? Use a Cause & Effect Diagram with your team. Team collaboration leads to a broader range of potential causes and quicker solutions. rudolfolah.com/cause-and-ef...
Process design is how we examine tasks for efficiency and effectiveness. It's the secret to getting things done better.
Getting Things Done with Process Design – Rudolf Olah
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December 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Process design is how we examine tasks for efficiency and effectiveness. It's the secret to getting things done better.
Data pipelines fuel product insights: rudolfolah.com/data-pipelin...
Creating a Data Pipeline for Analytics, AI/ML, ChatGPT – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Data pipelines fuel product insights: rudolfolah.com/data-pipelin...
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React web apps rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React web apps rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Lucidchart and Drawio: Two excellent diagramming tools that make complex ideas simple.
Lucidchart has amazing templates (user journeys, roadmaps, cloud architecture) while Drawio is perfect for deep-dive engineering architecture diagrams.
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Lucidchart has amazing templates (user journeys, roadmaps, cloud architecture) while Drawio is perfect for deep-dive engineering architecture diagrams.
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Engineering Management Tools: My Top Picks – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Lucidchart and Drawio: Two excellent diagramming tools that make complex ideas simple.
Lucidchart has amazing templates (user journeys, roadmaps, cloud architecture) while Drawio is perfect for deep-dive engineering architecture diagrams.
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Lucidchart has amazing templates (user journeys, roadmaps, cloud architecture) while Drawio is perfect for deep-dive engineering architecture diagrams.
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
When planning software projects with Agile and SCRUM, there are unknowns that will appear throughout the project
How do you plan for this? By using placeholders.
🗓️ Placeholders are tasks to formally block time for investigation, and critical check-ins and ensure no critical step is missed.
How do you plan for this? By using placeholders.
🗓️ Placeholders are tasks to formally block time for investigation, and critical check-ins and ensure no critical step is missed.
Buffers and Placeholders in Agile SCRUM Project Management – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When planning software projects with Agile and SCRUM, there are unknowns that will appear throughout the project
How do you plan for this? By using placeholders.
🗓️ Placeholders are tasks to formally block time for investigation, and critical check-ins and ensure no critical step is missed.
How do you plan for this? By using placeholders.
🗓️ Placeholders are tasks to formally block time for investigation, and critical check-ins and ensure no critical step is missed.
Solve problems by using Cause & Effect diagrams.
For IT projects, try the MVPS categories (Material, Vendors, People, Systems) to kick off your Cause & Effect analysis.
For Software Dev, use MCPS (Method, Code, People, Systems).
For IT projects, try the MVPS categories (Material, Vendors, People, Systems) to kick off your Cause & Effect analysis.
For Software Dev, use MCPS (Method, Code, People, Systems).
Cause & Effect Diagrams – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Solve problems by using Cause & Effect diagrams.
For IT projects, try the MVPS categories (Material, Vendors, People, Systems) to kick off your Cause & Effect analysis.
For Software Dev, use MCPS (Method, Code, People, Systems).
For IT projects, try the MVPS categories (Material, Vendors, People, Systems) to kick off your Cause & Effect analysis.
For Software Dev, use MCPS (Method, Code, People, Systems).
The way you plan and break down a project matters. A step-by-step approach offers scale, while an iterative loop delivers speed. Which process design works for your goal?
Getting Things Done with Process Design – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The way you plan and break down a project matters. A step-by-step approach offers scale, while an iterative loop delivers speed. Which process design works for your goal?
Software Engineers see data pipelines everywhere: rudolfolah.com/data-pipelin...
Creating a Data Pipeline for Analytics, AI/ML, ChatGPT – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Software Engineers see data pipelines everywhere: rudolfolah.com/data-pipelin...
When trying to improve frontend web app performance, set a performance budget with webpack
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
When trying to improve frontend web app performance, set a performance budget with webpack
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
When taking notes for one-on-one meetings, instead of Notion and Obsidian, I use Lattice. Lattice is a great tool that formalizes the process of career development with structured 1:1s.
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Engineering Management Tools: My Top Picks – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
When taking notes for one-on-one meetings, instead of Notion and Obsidian, I use Lattice. Lattice is a great tool that formalizes the process of career development with structured 1:1s.
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
When planning software projects with Agile and SCRUM, there are unknowns and uncertainties that will appear throughout the project. How do you plan for this? By using buffers. Buffers are a time-box attached to a larger task that set expectations on the potential time and effort needed.
Buffers and Placeholders in Agile SCRUM Project Management – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When planning software projects with Agile and SCRUM, there are unknowns and uncertainties that will appear throughout the project. How do you plan for this? By using buffers. Buffers are a time-box attached to a larger task that set expectations on the potential time and effort needed.
Cause and effect diagrams are useful because they let you list out all the causes that you and/or your team can think of: rudolfolah.com/cause-and-ef...
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Cause and effect diagrams are useful because they let you list out all the causes that you and/or your team can think of: rudolfolah.com/cause-and-ef...
A coach develops skills and knowledge, making the team less reliant on the leader. A fixer creates dependency. Choose coaching for long-term growth. Team leaders can apply coaching skills daily and see their teams grow as developers and people.
Coaching as a Team Leader – Rudolf Olah
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December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A coach develops skills and knowledge, making the team less reliant on the leader. A fixer creates dependency. Choose coaching for long-term growth. Team leaders can apply coaching skills daily and see their teams grow as developers and people.
Tired of tunnel vision? Take time to reflect and redesign your software development processes.
Getting Things Done with Process Design – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Tired of tunnel vision? Take time to reflect and redesign your software development processes.
Reference page for SCRUM Agile: What are user stories? What is a product backlog? How is the time and effort for a user story estimated?
SCRUM Methodology – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reference page for SCRUM Agile: What are user stories? What is a product backlog? How is the time and effort for a user story estimated?
Data pipelines fuel product insights: rudolfolah.com/data-pipelin...
Creating a Data Pipeline for Analytics, AI/ML, ChatGPT – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Data pipelines fuel product insights: rudolfolah.com/data-pipelin...
There's an alternative to webpack called rspack. Even if you do not move from webpack to rspack, you can still use rsdoctor, a performance profiling tool that can help diagnose what's going on with your React webpack build.
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's an alternative to webpack called rspack. Even if you do not move from webpack to rspack, you can still use rsdoctor, a performance profiling tool that can help diagnose what's going on with your React webpack build.
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Checking the performance of your webpack build for React requires checking the CPU usage, the heap memory profile, and the webpack plugins and loaders that are being used in the build.
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
Webpack and Frontend Build-Time Performance Engineering for React – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Checking the performance of your webpack build for React requires checking the CPU usage, the heap memory profile, and the webpack plugins and loaders that are being used in the build.
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
rudolfolah.com/profiling-we...
For taking notes as an engineering manager, I use Obsidian. Obsidian is a good note taking tool because it has plugins such as Periodic Notes.
Tired of your team's great work going unnoticed? Periodic Notes gives you a space to summarize the past month's work: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Tired of your team's great work going unnoticed? Periodic Notes gives you a space to summarize the past month's work: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Engineering Management Tools: My Top Picks – Rudolf Olah
rudolfolah.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For taking notes as an engineering manager, I use Obsidian. Obsidian is a good note taking tool because it has plugins such as Periodic Notes.
Tired of your team's great work going unnoticed? Periodic Notes gives you a space to summarize the past month's work: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...
Tired of your team's great work going unnoticed? Periodic Notes gives you a space to summarize the past month's work: rudolfolah.com/engineering-...