Execution Review: how to keep projects on-track

Intro: too many projects, not enough timeAt some point in Column Tax's lifecycle, we grew such that as co-founder & CTO (and responsible for Engineering, Product, and Design) I wasn't personally leading every project. At that point, I hired Ryan Seekely as Head of Engineering who helped us implement a system called Execution Review that allowed us to steer & debug dozens of simultaneous projects. This blog post describes why you might want a system like that, and how to implement it. Why do you need to track execution?As the Head of EPD (or Head of Engineering or an Engineering Manager), you're in charge of delivery. That means, at the end of the day, every project is your responsibility, and you're on-the-hook for overall team speed & project outcomes. But there are too many projects for you to personally lead every single one yourself. That means you need some way to keep track of every project and be able to step in to debug & fix if a project is not going well. You want to make…