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- Team Topologies and The Human Touch at Fast Flow Conference, London 2023
Last week I was over at the first-ever Fast Flow conference in London for a day of presentations and activities with those who would probably describe themselves as Team Topologies aligned practitioners or those who have… Read More »Team Topologies and The Human Touch at Fast Flow Conference, London 2023 - How To Identify a Killer Product Organisation
Software is innately abstract. Visualisation and description are sometimes useful to communicate individual pieces, but as a whole, the interactions are often too complex and dynamic to be represented by anything static like words or pictures.… Read More »How To Identify a Killer Product Organisation - How to Avoid the Organisational Big Ball of Mud
You’ve started working on a new project. Your job is to lead your team through the challenges that you find. You must improve the reliability, speed and quality of software delivery. The project comes with a… Read More »How to Avoid the Organisational Big Ball of Mud - People Patterns and Learning How to Say No, Nicely
So much of what we do as technical leaders is about interaction. Managing smart people is incredibly rewarding, but navigating the sea of opinions can sometimes be tricky. It can sometimes feel overwhelmingly difficult to steer… Read More »People Patterns and Learning How to Say No, Nicely - How to Visualise Your Systems
In a recent podcast episode, Nico Krijnen and I talked about requirements analysis, especially the use of diagrams – particularly context diagrams and DDD context maps, C4 system diagrams and business process canvases. Understanding, architecting and… Read More »How to Visualise Your Systems