Better teams, better products, better software, and better jobs.
I'm glad you're here! Whether you're looking for help making your teams the best they can be, bringing a new product to market, or are interested in getting a better job, Ryan has over a decade of experience helping companies and individuals find, "Better."
Getting Around
I write about a lot of topics and I have helped lots of folks over the years. This site is something like a beautiful mess of all of it. I'm not pretending everything here is well thought-out or even spell-checked.
Main Focuses
- Leadership - I excel at building and leading exceptional software teams. You can learn my tricks, ideas, theories, and such here.
- Product Management - From start-ups to Fortune 10 companies, from discovery to scale, I've brought amazing products to market.
- Careers - Getting a job is soul-crushing. It turns out I'm really good at it and I have lots to share if you're in tech.
This is new. I want to capture some of the stuff that is rattling around in my brain. So one part guide and one part reference.
I've done a fair amount of speaking at conferences and such. Take a look.
Flotsam & Jetsam 🎣
Beekeeping 🐝
Yep, I'm a beekeeper. You'll find the occasional bits and bobs about that here as well.
Games
Well, more specifically TTRPGs. Check it out!
reko.day
reko.day is my start-up. It is the easiest way to buy and sell local. You will likely find me working-in-public here.
Recent Updates
- How to accurately forecast a software team's performance: An introduction to using probabilistic forecasting to understand when a team will be done. Also included are notes on adding bugs, dependencies, multiple teams, and scope changes.
- Model Of High Performing Teams: -
- Ultimate Guide To Horizon Planning: Horizon plans are a lightweight tool to communicate long-term strategic goals. In this article I will break down how to build, use, and update them so you can communicate more strategically and adapt more quickly.
- Facilitation Guide: My brain, guide, and processes on collaborative facilitation.
- Result-Oriented Transformation: A Fortune 10 company had been "Transforming" for years but the only thing that changed was vocabulary. Shifting to result-oriented work instead of training and assessments changed everything.
- Case Study Transforming A Team In Three Months: A Fortune 100 company needed to transform a team responsible for the core technology that runs the entire business. It also needed to be done in three months.
- Building a SaaS Business From the Ground Up: A Fortune 10 company with decades of traditional IT thinking asked me to build them their first profitable software product. We had customers ready to pay within the first three months.
- Leadership: Ryan Latta helps technical leaders build high-performing teams, improve delivery, and develop their leadership skills.
- Product Management: Ryan Latta helps product managers and teams deliver products customers love.
- Hardest Question: Building a successful software product requires answering thousands of important questions throughout its lifecycle. Yet, there is one question that if you can master, will make every other answer even better.