05 Oct 2021 | Leadership
At some point in one’s career in tech, you’ll wind up leading a meeting and need people to take part in some facilitation activity. That might be a retrospective or an activity where you hold a vote. If you’ve ever felt awkward introducing the activity, here’s a step-by-step way to do it next time.
21 Sep 2021 | Leadership
Team is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot and sadly often means individuals assigned to work in close proximity. Since I specialize in building teams, I have a very different definition.
15 Sep 2021 | Leadership
The first time I was on a team that abandoned pull-requests and code reviews was back in 2011. I would keep pushing the groups I was in to do the same because the results were much better than the branch-based code reviews.
13 Sep 2021 | Leadership
There are a lot of things to think about when choosing metrics, and most groups tend to get paralyzed debating measures and ultimately measure nothing.
31 Aug 2021 | Leadership
I’ve been in the software game for a little over a decade, and I spent most of my time growing my sense and abilities to leverage agility for better results. Sadly, the further I go, the more distance I want from the rest of the agile industry. This article is likely going to ruffle some feathers.
04 Aug 2021 | Leadership
Flow-state is a zen-like experience for developers where code seems to produce itself with low effort. As much of a joy as this experience is, there are hidden dangers to this flow-state, so let’s explore them.
