25 Mar 2025 | Leadership
Self-managed or self-managing teams have been appearing in more literature and leadership training. Still, the term seems somewhat vague and eerily similar to concepts like holacracy and self-organizing teams, which probably makes you want to roll your eyes. Still, self-managed teams are highly valuable and worth creating and maintaining.
14 Mar 2025 | Leadership
Delegation is defined as “The act or process of authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions.” If you’ve been in any kind of leadership position before, you’ve bumped into how important it is to delegate and how overwhelmed you can get when you don’t.
01 Oct 2024 | Leadership
For all the years I’ve been helping teams grow, I’ve rarely met one who felt that they were exceptional. It’s one of those quirky things where, in one conversation, the leadership will proclaim how great their teams are, and the next, pull me aside and beg for help. There are always issues, so I thought I’d write about some things I’ve noticed that turn good teams into great ones.
28 Aug 2024 | Leadership
While I would never say that I was some rockstar developer in my prime, I seemed to hold my own well, and folks seemed to regard my work well and ask my advice. So, I thought I’d share some of the less obvious lessons I learned along the way. Obviously, there are many things, and I’m kind of picking three, so this isn’t a complete list.
13 Aug 2024 | Leadership
Refactoring is one of those terms that shows up almost daily with engineering teams, yet for most, the definition is pretty loose. What’s more, that loose definition leads to actions that often have undesirable outcomes, delays, and arguments about how to handle the fallout. So, let me break down how I approach refactoring with engineers and teams.
29 Jul 2024 | Leadership
Some friends were discussing a post by Jeff Sutherland about how AI will make estimation easy. What I thought was odd about that post was looking at where AI would begin to replace various Scrum activities, so I thought I’d plug in a prompt to see what AI will cook up for something like a sprint planning. You can see the results below.
