Recent Posts
Ownership at the right level
Ownership is not an all-or-nothing concept, so Netflix acknowledges up to five levels that each give a leader and its people a tool to clarify the expected/accept level of autonomy
An interesting perspective on what drives people
About passion, grace and fire as ingredients in a recipe for fully formed mature adults and high-performance teams as presented by Josh Evans at QCon San Francisco
The (in)sanity of performance testing web applications
Learn about the functional and technical challenges of achieving realistic and useful performance tests.
Should architecture be constrained by reality?
Should architects make decisions with the constraints of available capacity in mind? Or should they strive to ignore the reality and pursue only the best solutions?
9 tips to get your distributed teams to collaborate effectively
I’ve seen a lot of prior attempts to out-source work to remote teams fail, have always wondered what was the main reason for this. Is it a culture thing? Is it the time difference. In this post, I describe the things we do ourselves that have made our remote team endeavors pretty successful for t...
A surprisingly accurate model to improve your communication skills
It may be coincidence, but the two best tutorials I attended at Agile DevOps East both ran on the same day. The first one focused mostly on agile transformation, but briefly touched on the leadership topic. This one, let by Jennifer Bonine, took this further by focusing on being a better leader b...