Why Agents Love Agile (Because They Hate Straight Lines)
Agents are helping us rediscover something fundamental about how Agile actually works.
Peter Gillard-Moss
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The Decision Triangle: a simple way to improve decision making
Improve the quality of your decisions by focussing on three key elements.
Stop obsessing about low performers
Everyone's talking about how to deal with low performers. But what if that's not were the real gains are?
On Forests and Factories
As engineers we've been trained to break problems down into its component parts and optimise them. But this can be harmful when dealing with complex problems. Sometimes we are dealing for forests not factories
Improving flow with Team Topologies and Business Capability Mapping
You've read Team Topologies and everyone has come together to do some event storming and map out some domains. You've used this to produce a new technology strategy around microservices and an organisational structure which matches. A year later you've rolled this out but your problems didn't go away. What went wrong?
Beyond Team Topologies with team portfolios
Improve flow of value across the entire organization by combining Team Topologies with Value Driven Portfolio Management. Treating teams and the value they deliver as first class enables leaders to unlock the next level of organizational performance.
Seven Leadership Focus Areas to Cultivate Engineering Excellence
Achieving excellence in tech isn't just about numbers—it's about leaders cultivating cultures of excellence. Here are 7 actionable strategies tech leaders can use to create highly empowered teams and drive organizational performance.
Beyond metrics: creating cultures of engineering excellence
In a tech driven era the C-Suite is awakening to the strategic role of engineering. But reports like those from McKinsey over emphasis the role of metrics. Discover why leadership and culture are at the heart of true engineering excellence. Let's empower leaders to create cultures built on engineering expertise.
Performance Management the Trading Card Way
Many software engineers are put off of leadership and performance management is one reason why. Yet growing other engineers can be one of the most rewarding aspects of leadership. Approaching growth like a trading card game is an engaging way to help new engineering managers have constructive growth conversations with their team members.
How Agile scaffolds enable emergence
Scaffolds are temporary structures which enable emergence and then disappear. Which agile practices can be employed as scaffolding?