Tag: management
Simple Habits for a Happier Team
Small changes and management techniques can transform your team's dynamics and boost morale. Explore practices like expressing gratitude, weekly reflections, and eliminating negative behaviors to foster a positive, growing team.
Simple Habits for a Happier Team
Small changes and management techniques can transform your team's dynamics and boost morale. Explore practices like expressing gratitude, weekly reflections, and eliminating negative behaviors to foster a positive, growing team.
How to Information at Work
How to listen and process information at work, leading to stronger relationships and less checkins
Amdahl's law
Why parallel hardware stops helping once a fixed slice of work stays serial.
Making 1:1s Worth Your Time
Why 1:1s with your manager should not be a status meeting and how to refocus the time on growth, blockers, and longer-term career conversations.
Fall In Love With The Problem, Not The Solution
Why product managers should anchor on the customer problem rather than a specific solution, and how to avoid building the wrong thing well.
What's the best way to give developers space?
Like all my new posts and articles, this piece originally appeared on werd.io. Software developers are not technicians. Whereas technicians are employed to do practical work involving technical equipment, the development process is more akin to writing. Paul Graham was absolutely right when he pointed out that: [...] Of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and painters are among the most alike. What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. Along with c
Software factories vs software universities
I've worked in startups for almost my entire career - sometimes my own, sometimes companies started by other people. I'm good at what I do, and I love it: I get to create tools that empower people to do things they previously couldn't, or that were substantial obstacles. Usually that involves some kind of democratization; a righting of an inequality of access. I love creating these platforms, I love watching people use them, and I love evolving them in partnership with the people who use them.
Conferencia Agile-Spain 2012 - Madurez
Asistir a una Conferencia Agile-Spain es siempre muy especial para mí.Llevo implicado en este embolado desde el principio y, como muchos otros, año tras año me he dejado en este esfuerzo una parte de mí, para luego, año tras año recibir una inmensa gratificación al celebrarse el evento.Pero este año
Riesgo, su prima, y el efecto de la métrica en la motivación
Harto estoy.Todos los días lo mismo en la radio.Antes “los mercados” eran la Bolsa, y todos los días teníamos que despertarnos con el termómetro de “rojo”, o “verde”. Verde porque el negro, tradicional color positivo del negocio, tiene connotaciones negativas en el gran público, así de popular se ha
The product management cycle
Monday: “The plan is A! We'll market it at A!” Tuesday: “Actually, I was thinking B. A is stupid. Who would want to do that?” Wednesday: “Goddamnit, we need to be working towards C. Why does no-one see that?” Thursday: “Maybe A was right ...” Friday: “This team sucks.” Hint: pick a direction and run. And make sure – just as your tech team does – that your management team has measurable metrics for success.