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When organisations talk about AI resistance in engineering teams, they usually diagnose it as technophobia, change fatigue, or job insecurity. I think they're wrong and the misdiagnosis leads to the wrong response.
Visit any technology company's website - or increasingly, any company at all - and measure the time to first AI mention. A few seconds, usually...
Michael Watkins' influential book "The First 90 Days" made that timeframe a fixture of leadership thinking. Most people read it as a runway: time to listen before you act. But there's a cognitive reason that window matters...
There's a temptation when you step into a new leadership role to make your mark early: reorganise the team, introduce a new process, signal that change has arrived...
A designer’s sketchbook is a beautiful mess: half-formed ideas, crossed-out attempts, margins full of notes. Nobody expects it to be a finished product...
If you treat AI coding tools like any other dev tool rollout, you're going to hit a wall....
It's one of the most underrated aspects of modern business. Everyone talks about strategy, innovation, execution. But focus?...
It's a common question that gets asked as a company is growing: should we build this or buy off-the-shelf software...
Andy Kelk has a background in software engineering and is a senior manager with the Wesfarmers group, looking after digital assets across the group’s retail businesses – it’s a leadership role Kelk takes seriously...
If you’ve ever worked in a big organisation (I have) then you’ve probably heard the “r” word used when really the speaker was talking about a person or people. Something like “we have a new resource starting next week”...
Right now I’m a CTO but I’ve had many different roles in different companies and different countries. I’d like to take you through a portion of my career and what I’ve learned along the way....
This week I held an offsite for my engineering leadership team. My two aims were to do some formation activities as we have a few new faces in the team and to...
I prefer to build long-lived teams where the same people stay together over an extended period of time. I believe in the immutable team: > Teams are immutable....
"Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats." That's the advice from Jim Collins in his 2002 book...
Having a culture of collaboration where people feel safe to share their views and work across a diverse group is a must for a successful organisation. Every...
As sometimes happens, I wanted to answer a question on Twitter but couldn't do it justice in 140 characters. The question was this: > @andykelk @auxesis...
I've recently retweeted a few tweets which weren't exactly complimentary about Jira. For example: > Plenty of good things happened at work today. And then I...
Reading this article recently, an interesting theory about coffee was raised: > The time of day people drink their coffee varies with Sydney waking up with...
Think about the last day you spent at work. What did you learn? We usually reflect on what we achieved, what we completed, what we delivered....
Let’s talk about failure. It’s not something we talk about a lot because it’s not a comfortable topic. We always hope for success but we also need to be able to deal with failure...