Building Exceptional Software Teams and the Leaders Behind Them
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
- Announcing - Lies Our Engineering Metrics Tell Us: -
- Louder, for the people in the back ✅: -
- reko.day: -
- Talks, Podcasts, and Other Appearances: Talks, Podcasts, and other appearances or downloads I have to explore
- Can You Hear Me Now: After agonizing over a plan or strategy, how do you know if there is alignment? Often there isn't. You need a way to triangulate where the gaps are and the reality people are operating with and not the hope you have. This article explains how.
- Trust Triangles: Exceptional leadership depends on trust, even when your job demands otherwise. Trust triangles are a way to build trust beyond traditional one-on-one relationship building.
- Measures, Metrics, and Signals: My thoughts and approach to developing measures, metrics, and signals for exceptional engineering teams and leaders. If this topic has always felt baffling, this will cover goal setting with metrics, leading and lagging indicators, developing useful leadership signals, and how to avoid chaos with balancing metrics.
- How to actually use metrics 😱: -
- Fieldstones and Ideas: -
- When Flow State Is Dangerous: -