Early in my PM career, I was working for a marketing agency. I was responsible for a newsletter that went out every Friday morning. It was consistently late. They needed...
Meeting culture is that ubiquitous pest that stains corporate life. Middle managers often have their agenda covered with back-to-back meetings like some kind of twisted mosaic. And in these days...
One morning, the CEO of a large company wakes up with a great idea. She gathers her Department Heads and the ball starts rolling.
A few months later, an engineer...
Now that distributed teams are finally adopted by the mainstream, productivity soars and work-life balance is better. Most developers, designers and writers are happy to be back in control of...
An emergency kit for newly distributed teams
Those that know me, know I'm somewhat of a remote work advocate. For years, I've been praising the steady evolution away from the centralized...
I've worked in plenty of large enterprisy organisations and one of the most painful recurring themes is employee detachment.
We don't talk about it that often, but in an industry that's...
Sometimes it can feel that discussions about Agile and Lean are purely academic. Most of those articles are the business equivalent of those motivational TED Talks. But sometimes, you watch...
A team is a network of individuals working towards a common goal. There's a lot of literature about the teams and the networks and the goals, but I would like...
Yin vs Yang, Cats vs Dogs, Recruiters vs Developers. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
Developers are in high demand and...
The Mythical Man-month is 40 years old. It's a timeless classic for software development management and its pages are often condensed into Brooks's Law:
"Adding manpower to a late software project...
