A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Summary
The article outlines how staff engineers on platform teams 'invent' work by listening to signals from four directions: system, users, organization, and industry. It details specific signal types (Crash-led Discovery, Cost, Your Own Toil, Continuous Discovery, Overloaded Use-cases, Partner-to-Prototype, OKRs, Migration Debris) and emphasizes prioritizing signals to avoid bias and HiPPO effects.