Making A Case to Your Manager
20 Jan 2020 | Leadership
No matter where you are in your job, you will have great ideas. How do you get them to your manager in a way that they hear it?
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Choosing a Tech Stack
26 Nov 2019 | Leadership
Not too long ago, I was involved with a new team starting up. The team went through the training and sat at their desks, ready to work on their problem of replacing an existing system. They had a critical decision to make, what would their tech stack be?
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Can You Hear Me Now?
05 Sep 2019 | Leadership
Its all-to-often that during meetings, people make numerous decisions and aren’t communicated out. Maybe a new strategic direction was set for a few teams or its time to experiment with agility, we’re going to try OKRs, or a new set of people are being brought on. The decision could be anything, but I guess that one of those probably fits a simple set of criteria.
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It’s Always My Last Day
15 Jul 2019 | Leadership
This past Friday, I said goodbye to a Scrum Master. They were contracting at the same company I was and found a different opportunity. During one of our conversations, I asked, “So, did is there any transition?” Their response was a laughing, “No.” But what does a transition look like for someone that coaches teams?
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From Strategy to Story
01 Jul 2019 | Leadership
I often wind up with clients who are so fixated on keeping their teams working that they don’t have a clear strategy or vision that they can communicate. They lose themselves in the world of finding more work for the teams to consume. For the few that have a vision or a strategy, there is a considerable gap between that vision or strategy and the work that is happening.
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Exploiting Opportunity
24 Jun 2019 | Leadership
There are so many things that happen every day within a team and organization. Even companies that seem to move at a glacial pace have lots of moments that avail themselves to the opportunistic consultant seeking change.