The First Question To Ask When Building Teams – Is This Really A Team?

Written by Stefan Lindbohm and Viktor Cessan. Have you ever wondered why so many organizations fail at building effective and high performing teams despite offering so much support in different ways e.g. by managing people, by managing the environment, and by coaching teams? You’re not alone.

Hiring for Fit

What does it mean for a hiring candidate to be a good fit? We then gravitate toward candidates who look, sound, think, and act like the folks already in power. We can sweep a lot of bias under the rug of “culture fit".

These are the reasons Software Engineers don’t leave their jobs

Tech companies are always trying to figure out how to keep their employees happy in their jobs. It’s no easy feat though, and the people in tech I’ve spoken to stay at a particular job for around 18 months or less on average. Whenever I ask any of them what is the reason, it usually stems from the same problems.

This Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1 Percent and Here’s What Happened

This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits. The fate of British Cycling changed one day in 2003.

Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects

Andy says: "Gojko won many awards for his seminal book; if you'd like a practical approach to ensuring your team's efforts are spent on the most valuable objectives, this is an important book to have in your collection"

Software is everywhere today, but countless software products and projects die a slow death without ever making any impact. The result is a tremendous amount of time and money wasted due to wrong assumptions, lack of focus, poor communication of objectives, lack of understanding and misalignment with overall goals. There has to be a better way to deliver!

Why All Engineers Must Understand Management: The View from Both Ladders

Something interesting has been happening as I’ve been trying to write more about engineering management. When I wrote advice about micromanaging for managers, a few friends asked me about how to deal with their (micro)manager, so I wrote about how to handle your manager.

How are you listening as a leader?

Lead Change is a leadership media destination with a unique editorial focus on driving change within organizations, teams, and individuals. Lead Change, a division of Weaving Influence, publishes twice monthly with SmartBrief. Today's post is by C. Otto Scharmer.

Workplace stress is killing us. Here’s what to do about it.

Within a year and a half of starting my first job, I had burned out. It was a crisis of self-care, as much as anything: I’d been working too many hours, and compensating with all the wrong things.

Learning How to Learn: My Conversation With Barbara Oakley

In this interview, Barbara Oakley, 8-time author and creator of Learning to Learn, an online course with over a million enrolled students, shares the science and strategies to learn more quickly, overcome procrastination and get better at practically anything.

Underestimating Estimation

How much time would it take to carry a box from A to B as in the figure below? With a team of eight people, how much time would it take to carry a big box in the Himalayas?

Problem exploration, selection and validation.

Most engineering organizations separate engineering and product leadership into distinct roles. This is usually ideal, not only because these roles benefit on distinct skills, but also because they thrive from different perspectives and priorities. It's quite hard to do both well at the same time.