Optimising Engineer Productivity & Happiness (Subtitle: the latter is more important)

https://www.yergler.net/2017/09/11/on-product-engineering/
ON PRODUCT ENGINEERING

1.

Work as a cross-function team, to avoid contentions between teams.

2.

Work from a backlog, to avoid interrupts. Work only goes to the backlog when it's actionable.

3.

And review this backlog together, to remove uncertainties. The more eyeballs, the better.