Principles & Practices
Insights on driving growth and innovation in large enterprises facing disruption. Strategies for adapting to long-term business challenges and avoiding "Kodak moments" in rapidly changing industries.
Healthy Code for Healthy Teams - Building Robust and Flexible Research Codebases
Explore the connection between healthy teams and code, focusing on improving codebase health through type annotations and runtime type checking for JAX arrays in research environments.
Building a Minimal Data Science Platform
Develop a lean data science platform from scratch, scaling from individual to team projects while addressing key challenges and maximizing efficiency.
Implementing a Machine Learning Initiative: A Leader's Perspective
Discover key strategies for successfully implementing machine learning initiatives in organizations. Learn to align ML with strategic objectives, measure efforts, create a receptive culture, and navigate organizational dynamics.
Capability, Vulnerability, Fallibility, and Flexibility - A Permission System for Team Trust
Explore four powerful ways to build a high-trust team culture: capability, vulnerability, fallibility, and flexibility. Learn how engineering managers can foster an environment where individuals thrive without fear.
Owning Your Experience - Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace
Learn to effectively communicate about mental health at work, using experiential language to share your whole self and unlock your team's potential.
Designing and Facilitating Better Workshops
Practical advice for designing and facilitating effective workshops, covering preparation, structure, techniques, and remote application to enhance team collaboration and problem-solving.
Managing the Burnout Burndown
Practical strategies for tech leaders to manage stress, reduce burnout, and maintain productivity while navigating team dynamics, office politics, and an evolving software landscape.
Not Having Conflicts Is Not an Option - Let's Have Good Ones
Explore effective conflict resolution strategies for personal and professional growth. Learn to navigate tensions, foster innovation, and achieve positive outcomes through constructive disagreements.
Owning Your Experience - Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace
Learn to effectively communicate about mental health at work using experiential language, fostering a more inclusive and understanding environment while unlocking your team's full potential.
This Startup Life - 3 Years Deep
Ben Cull shares his 3-year startup journey, offering insights on software development, business skills, and overcoming challenges for aspiring entrepreneurs in the tech industry.
From DevOps to DevSecOps
Explore how Threat Modeling can transform DevOps into DevSecOps, enhancing security, documentation, and team engagement in engineering projects from the start.
Retrospectives Antipatterns
Discover common pitfalls in retrospectives and learn effective strategies to overcome them, enhancing your facilitation skills for more productive team meetings.
Effective Communication in a Remote First World
Strategies for effective remote communication in IT teams, covering intra-team, inter-team, and customer interactions. Learn to optimize channels, master asynchronous communication, and maintain alignment in distributed environments.
Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader
Discover essential leadership skills and behaviors for impacting your workplace and community, debunking myths and learning from real-world experiences.
The Leadership Balancing Act - Achieving Success Without Burning Out
Strategies for balancing leadership responsibilities, personal goals, and work-life harmony while avoiding burnout. Insights on prioritization, goal-setting, and team inspiration for sustainable success.
Empowering Soft Skills with Team Dynamics - Communication Skills
Enhance team performance through psychology-based techniques, active listening, and communication skills. Improve group dynamics, project management, and recruitment in engineering and DevOps teams.
Cynicism Doesn’t Build Products
Exploring attitudes in software development, from skepticism to cynicism, and their impact on product building. Offers insights on fostering positive approaches for creating strong, enduring software solutions.
The Leadership Balancing Act - Achieving Success Without Burning Out
Strategies for achieving success and avoiding burnout in leadership roles, balancing priorities, managing stress, and fostering team empowerment and personal growth.
Ring-fence the Chaos - When Technical Teams Meet Organisational Systems
Explore strategies for optimizing technical team structures, workflows, and organizational systems to enhance efficiency, productivity, and employee satisfaction in software development environments.
The Guilded Age - How a UX Guild Can Transform Design at Your Company
Discover how UX Guilds can revolutionize design practices, enhance collaboration, and scale UX expertise across your organization through training and evangelism.