20 Years After My First Post, Why I'm Still Writing Online 🖋️
20 years!!! I must be getting old!
Latest
The Four Must-Have Weekly Meetings for Engineering Managers 🗓️
A Guide to Effective Team Management Through Weekly Rituals
A Framework for Innovation 🪜
Introducing the Mobius Loop framework and the Open Practice Library a framework you can use to build your own!
How to Innovate 💡
Innovation comes from rapid experimentation and process rather than pure genius.
Four Key Questions for Managers That Boost Team Performance 🔥
This week's issue outlines four key questions to help managers effectively evaluate their feelings for their team members, ensuring continuous improvement and success.
✨ The 20% Rule - The Power Of Early Feedback
Boost collaboration and prevent burnout with the 20% Rule
The Myth of the Quick Fix: Why Real Change in Engineering Takes Time ⏳
I've found transformation and change to be hard; here are some of the challenges I've encountered and the insights I've gained.
Newsflash: The Retrospective 6th May 2024
Péter Szász and I are experimenting with a new live show!
Professional Pivot: Reflecting on My First Quarter in Freelancing 🔄
Reflecting on my transition to freelance consulting, including my role as a fractional CTO and VP of Engineering, what I've learned, and how I plan to engage with clients effectively.
Product and Engineering: Who Owns What? ⚖️
Principles to delineate product and engineering roles to foster collaboration and ownership throughout the product development lifecycle, focusing on ownership, collaboration, and innovation.
Frontlines or Sidelines: Striking the Right Balance in Management
The balance between hands-on leadership and empowering your team.
The IKEA Effect and How I Screwed Up!
Learn about the IKEA Effect's role in organizational change from my firsthand account of its misapplication. I also share lessons on communication, co-creation, and the power of early involvement for successful change initiatives.
Key Concepts
⏳💪 Timeboxing: The Project Delivery Superpower
Timeboxing is a powerful project management technique that harnesses strict deadlines to enhance productivity, focus, and successful outcomes.
Principles
Baseline Principles for Teams
The five foundational principles for healthy teams.
Principles
Unlock Clarity with Organisational Principles
The core of collaboration: how principles shape our work and fuel progress.
Process
Process Entropy and the Habit Loop
High-performing teams need processes to function well but often have high entropy. Here are six ways you can ensure processes serve your team.
Principles
Do People Dislike Work? Exploring Theory X and Theory Y
Theory X says that people are mostly motivated by money and worry about losing their jobs.
Personal Updates
2023: The Year I Changed Everything!
I quit my job and moved city.
Performance Management
Debunking Performance Rating Myths: Reflecting on My Experience at Accenture
Discover the realities behind performance rating myths as I delve into my experience at Accenture.
Outcomes
Exploring AI: Using AI to Help You Think
🤖💡 Discover how generative AI can be a valuable thinking partner in your work process! I give an example of its potential to aid in outcome-focused project naming and creative problem-solving, and share some best practices. #AI #Productivity #ProblemSolving
Newsletter
My Vision for Product Teams
Engaged product teams continuously creating impactful outcomes by learning and making decisions through their weekly interactions with users.
Newsletter
I tried working in VR (so you don't have to!)
Things were pretty sucky initially. I can now sit in my spaceship and type away for a couple hours on a newsletter post with chilled beats.
Newsletter
A Manifesto for Building High Performing Cross-Functional Teams
Teams get work done and are the fundamental building block in organisations. Team experiences determines engagement.
Newsletter
Open Space Technology: A Change Mechanism for Teams of All Sizes
Imagine turning the "hallway track" into the main event, that is what Open Space Technology does for an event.