Leadership How Do You Measure a Good Software Engineer? How do you know if you have somebody good at tech, or if they are just good at faking it? If you aren't technical, can you tell the quality from the fakers? In
Leadership Effective Tech Meetings - Avoiding the Disaster The format of your meeting, or how you run the discussion, is more important than you may think. With design and technology people, it is important that meetings and communication happen in a
Leadership The Importance of Empathy Simon Sinek succinctly captures many leadership challenges faced today in his talk on Empathy and Perspective. This is an even greater challenge in the Technology Industry! A few points that resonate: 1:30
Leadership Powerful Agile WBS Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a powerful tool to help scope work at any level – when used properly. It can be worked in an agile manner iteratively, scoping work only as needed. A
Leadership Do you have good Tech Culture? Work culture is far more critical to our success than work environment, yet it is more often glossed over because it deals with the problematic interpersonal challenges that are never easy to resolve. Have you considered the difference?
Leadership Who does most of your work? Price's law observes that from any given group, half of the work is done by a minor fraction of the whole (specifically 50% of the work is done by a square root of
Designing Tech Why Is Design So Hard? Why do we struggle to figure the right way to build things? Even more so in the Tech industry? Design Thinking is a way of thinking that has powerful outcomes when it is
DevOps Four Principles of DevOps DevOps is a very charged word in the industry right now. There is a lot of information and opinions available and not everybody wants to go read several books just to get an
Leadership The Courage of being Different We often hear about the challenge women face in STEM, but I wonder how much we really recognize what it is? I'm a male, in a field of men. Around me what is
Leadership Remote Work Success! From time to time situations may call for working remotely, but working remotely comes with its own challenges — on both the remote worker and the in-office workforce. Here are some suggestions for helping
Leadership Et Tu Brute: Are you a Yes-Man? I worked seven years with a friend, and together we did some amazing things. But ever so slowly what started as a great relationship became tainted, and at the heart of it was
Developers The Agile Deceit Understanding Feature vs Deliverable Discord In software development, there is a challenge which, at its root, is about the difference between a feature (described from a user's perspective as something a user needs)
Leadership Delegate with Success Delegation is something we all want to do, yet we find it challenging. We recognize that we cannot do everything, but it is hard to pass off important things to others. Can we
Leadership Fox in the Henhouse There is a renown rivalry in Software Development as polarized as the Hatfield and McCoy's. As long as there has been software, there has existed two factions: the Developers, and the Administrators (also
Designing Tech The Power of Sustainment Perhaps it comes from my experience in working in the Department of Defense, but I have come to appreciate a simple facet of Relationships called Sustainment. The concept is seemingly obvious, yet so
Designing Tech Leadership Domains Effective change can only be made with a solid understanding of your organization, and this involves understanding how people behave--these are defined as Leadership Domains and Behavioral Domains. There are three common domains
Leadership Behavioral Domains Just as leadership has three common domains, the same goes for how people within an organization tend to think and behave. These are the Behavioral Domains and are commonly described as: Operations, Engineering