A Requiem for a Team
08 May, 2013
A description of a high-performing team in action.
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In Defence Of The Office
11 Jan, 2014
In-office collocated teams get a lot of criticism these days, but there are trade-offs to remote work that I rarely hear discussed.
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Read article →We're in the Stone Age of Software Engineering Management
15 Jun, 2015
Most engineering management today is not very good. Here's why.
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Read article →The Atomic Team Pattern
16 Nov, 2016
Some thoughts about managing at the team level rather than just at the individual level.
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Read article →So You Want to be a Manager?
06 Mar, 2017
What does it really mean to be a manager?
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Read article →Why does Bad Waterfall Happen to Good People?
20 Jul, 2017
How do we dismantle the waterfall of work and start working together better?
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Read article →Working Without Estimates
22 Oct, 2017
There are a lot of things that suck about traditional estimates. So we stopped using them.
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Read article →Hey that seems longer than 2 weeks
28 Apr, 2022
I've stumbled upon a style of estimation that I've seen be pretty successful. I'll call it "2W+ Estimation".
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part I
30 Apr, 2022
The majority of software developers don’t really know how to do a very effective work breakdown and the results are often absolutely disastrous.
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part II
09 May, 2022
I previously explained why you should care about a good work breakdown. In this post, I’ll start to dig into how.
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part III
19 May, 2022
Thin Vertical slices are generally the best practice for work breakdowns, but they're still not as common as they should be, so I'll try to describe them more here.
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Read article →Breaking It Down, Part IV
23 May, 2022
Here's the last piece of the puzzle: What does a good work breakdown look like as a whole?
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Read article →The Reliable Org
14 Oct, 2024
The What and How of making your organization reliable
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