Are you dreading an email from work while you follow this presentation? Ruminating over last week’s outage? Worried you are not learning enough because you cannot stay focused on the talks? These are three kinds of suffering we all experience at work: uncertainty, failure, and insufficiency.
As software developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends’ dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second.
Have you ever worked as a software developer on a legacy project, like lots of source code, but no unit tests? Or no continuous delivery? Static code analysis completely missing, or even a simple code standard totally absent? Projects like these are still more often the case than we like …
The role of the Agile manager is to enable knowledge-based work. As ‘enablers’, managers are there to remove blockers, increase competence and ensure collaboration. Except nobody has told them that officially. Many managers in large organizations are simply doing what they have been trained to do: protecting the organization from …
All teams go through several lifecycle phases, whether in a startup or an established enterprise. This talk should help you identify which phase of growth lifecycle your team is in and how being aware of it can help you build the right culture, make effective technology choices, hire people who …
What happens when we drop “No, but…” from our daily interactions or life choices in favor of the #1 rule of improvisation: “Yes, and..?”
