How to be a Happier Software Engineer
It is incredibly powerful to realise that a single engineer can influence a team’s overall happiness and, by extension, their own happiness. But it can… Read More »How to be a Happier Software Engineer
Too Busy To Do It Right
DevOps transformations can often become a checklist of tools and processes we need to assemble, like so much Ikea furniture. But DevOps is not a… Read More »Too Busy To Do It Right
How to fix the “Failing” Team
Do you have a failing team? Why is it, in your eyes, failing? Sometimes this seems like an intractable problem. The team is failing because… Read More »How to fix the “Failing” Team
How Does Ability to Innovate Impact Bottom Line?
…and what to do about it… I wanted to map some classic business efficiency and software delivery books to derive meaning for a given business… Read More »How Does Ability to Innovate Impact Bottom Line?
How to Know When the Team is Broken
We talk about high performing teams. But what about broken teams? How can you tell when a team isn’t performing? How do you measure what… Read More »How to Know When the Team is Broken
Dave Farley and Allen Holub: Agile & Scrum – what doesn’t work
Yesterday I caught up with an interesting and wide ranging discussion between Dave Farley and Allen Holub about “Agile & Scrum – what doesn’t work”.… Read More »Dave Farley and Allen Holub: Agile & Scrum – what doesn’t work
How to get DevOps Insights You Can Trust
Throughout my career, I’ve built engineering toolchains to help software development teams deliver higher quality software, more quickly, with less fuss. I’ve also worked hard… Read More »How to get DevOps Insights You Can Trust