Sensors and Signals 🌡️

Happy Friday,I've been busy switching up some of my writing on my site, which is challenging, and I hope it pays off. My previous strategy was to write frequently about whatever I felt like and hope that would turn into people reading my site, joinin...

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Mar 28, 2025
I'm giving a talk and I'd love you to join!

Happy Friday,This week you'll get a short and sweet email from me.Every so often I do a talk at a conference or for an online group and one of those dates is coming up.On April 8th I'll be giving a talk on how to introduce Test-Driven Development to...

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Mar 21, 2025
Are Self-Managing Teams Worth It Or Just Hype?

Happy Friday!I mentioned in my previous email that I've been reworking my site in preparing for some larger changes. I posted my first new article that is based on my new direction of writing for technical leaders and product managers. My first artic...

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Mar 14, 2025
The Delegation Trap 🐋

Happy Friday!I don't know about you, but I'm busy bouncing between lots of different things this month. A lot of my activities are related to beekeeping, so I'll spare you those details, though I did restructure my ryanlatta.com site to help with SEO...

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Mar 07, 2025
Have you tried the Balanced Scorecard?

Happy Friday!You know what sucks? Massive powerpoint decks full of updates and nothing informative. It sucks to sit through slide after slide of updates and try to piece together where your project, group, or organization stands. It sucks to ask what...

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Feb 14, 2025
This email is for folks serious about leadership

Happy Friday,Change is inevitable. It could affect the direction of work, staff, technologies, laws, ownership, compensation, organization, and more. Great leaders are able to respond to these changes by acknowledging the challenge while rallying tho...

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Jan 31, 2025