Get Your Teams to Estimate Well
Technologists hate estimating. They know that any estimate they give is wrong, and that makes the team look bad. That is our fault. We ask the team to provide us with estimates that are both precise and accurate.
Set up Your Engineering Teams for Success
Organizations need to be comprised of agile, autonomous teams that can deliver with minimal coordination with other teams. Those teams must plan work, solve problems, make decisions, and review progress in service of a specific set of projects and services.
Happy People Know What's Going On
You must communicate change for it to be effective. Randomly mentioning it to a direct is not enough. Learn to communicate change effectively with low overhead.
Use Job Descriptions to Build Great Culture
Job descriptions can be culture carriers. Done right, they give your team a concise nugget of culture that is both actionable and useful — a razor for day-to-day decision-making, hiring, or any area where you need a guide for behavior.
How to Decide to Fire
Firing is easy when someone is misbehaving. It is much harder when they are performing inconsistently. How do you know when to fire?
Use the Right Lever for Successful Change
Successful change requires doing the right thing, in the right place, at the right time. It requires the using the right lever with the right pivot point.
Things Are Great, Right? Measuring Progress
How do you know you are improving? You measure it. In an organizational setting that is hard. This article gives you the solution.
Joy in Aligning With Product
Organizations are not naturally aligned and most leaders can't restructure the org to improve alignment. Here we provide some approaches that help improve alignment with Product.
Reframing Problems to Move Forward
Nothing can block you from your mission. Problems can change the path you walk, they can constrain you, but they can't stop you. Reframing this way lets you take your ego out of the equation and change your goals without feeling like you've failed.
The Economy of Political Capital
Understanding the ebb and flow of Political Capital will make you more successful in delivering Real Value for your organization.
