Making great teams takes a lot, but in this article I want to dive into three ingredients. A great team knows they have an impact on decisions, a strong sense of team, and they are relentless in pursuing mastery.
Out of a million things I learned in my career in software, there are three uncommon lessons I learned: Slow down, sleep well, and experiment.
Refactoring to many teams means clean up the code, but they've also been burned by long refactoring projects that didn't improve much. In this article I'll share the basic dos and don'ts about refactoring to consistently improve code with low risk.
Can AI replace one of the oddest roles in agility? In this post I review a script to facilitate sprint planning to see how it compares.
Motivating teams is as much an art as it is science. Knowing about extrinsic and intrinsic motivators can help leaders in their approach of building the best performing groups possible, and avoid poisoning morale.
We all grow up with superstitions and we develop new ones in our careers. In this article I will share two such superstitions of mine. One is about how I fight off sickness, and another is how I become a better leader.
If racecars were built the way most organizations build software, they'd never finish a race. Organization's singular focus on speed creates ruinous levels of quality. Shifting to focus on quality first, on the other hand, creates huge time savings a...
Agency is all about making meaningful choices. Yet, many organizations strip this away in favor of tight controls. Yet, the best teams I've ever seen operate with a lot of agency, and so make agency a focal point in creating teams as well. A good pla...
Almost every agile approach focuses on teams and short sprints. Unfortunately businesses need to think on longer time horizons and so we need better tools to help leaders respond better. In this article I show a simple way to set goals and measure th...
Technical teams often shout for improvments. More design, less testing, and new tools are common requests. However, these requests are often far more costly than the problems that exist today. This article explains the root of the issues here and how...