Managers Are Not That Stupid
Explore management and leadership in agile contexts, focusing on teams' essential contributions. Learn how to renegotiate management tasks and overcome challenges for successful agile implementation.
Lessons from Leading through Uncertain Times
Insights on navigating leadership challenges during unprecedented global changes, focusing on effective change management strategies and lessons learned from the pandemic experience.
Move Fast But Don't Break Things
Discover strategies for maintaining startup agility while meeting enterprise demands. Learn to balance speed with stability, certainty, and compliance in software development for large-scale customers.
Software Engineering at Google
Insights from Google engineers on sustainable coding practices, team building, and software engineering challenges. Explores build systems, cultural improvements, and career growth in tech.
In the Pursuit of the Best Developer Experience
Explore strategies for optimizing developer experience in enterprise settings, from streamlined onboarding to dynamic team changes, governance, and value stream management.
How to Deal with Hypergrowth
Insights on navigating hypergrowth challenges in organizations, covering context-setting, technical decisions, scaling leadership, reassessing impact, and supporting teams through rapid expansion.
Sabotaging an Agile Transformation
Explores common inhibitors to successful agile transformations and provides strategies to overcome them, including case studies, mitigation actions, and best practices for anticipating challenges.
Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Octopus
Insights on rapidly scaling an R&D team: strategies for growth, managing challenges, and building high-performance teams. Learn from Octopus Deploy's journey of tripling their team size in 8 months.
What We Learned from Lord of the Rings
Explore team building, project management, and leadership lessons from Lord of the Rings. Learn how to create successful teams, overcome challenges, and achieve goals against all odds.
Remote Teams - 5 Things I'm Doing Wrong & Maybe You Should Too
Challenging conventional wisdom on leading distributed teams, exploring alternative structures for happier, more productive remote work environments and fostering a great culture of distributed collaboration.
Social Contracts for Engineering Teams - Finding the Right Glue to Help Your Teamwork Stick
Explore social contract theory for engineering teams: create explicit agreements, reinforce teamwork, and launch into high-performance mode. Learn techniques for building and maintaining effective team dynamics.
Grow Your Own Tech Leads
Discover strategies for nurturing in-house technical leaders, fostering growth and retention. Learn actionable ideas for aspiring tech leads and ways to create an inclusive environment for leadership development.
Take Away "Dev" and "QA" from Engineer's Job Title and Build a Truly "One Team" - The Gumtree Bidirectional Transformation Journey
Discover how Gumtree transformed their engineering team by removing "Dev" and "QA" titles, fostering collaboration, and shifting testing responsibilities to create a unified, agile workforce.
Decision Making & Heuristics
Explore decision-making models for CTOs, expert vs. non-expert approaches, and fostering a culture of intentional architecture and design heuristics to develop future technical leaders.
So You Want To Be A CTO
Insights and experiences from a seasoned CTO on building great products, leading engineering teams, and navigating executive roles in tech companies.
Replatform in a Year or Die - The Tale of a Turnaround
Discover how MYOB tackled tech debt through a massive replatform, revolutionizing their software development process and organizational structure to meet a critical deadline and drive the company forward.
Once Upon a Time in Agile
Explore how individual journeys to self-acceptance and alignment are key to supporting agile teams. Learn to create lasting change, help teams own their process, and tell their story for continuous realignment.
Shaving the Golden Yak
Explore the balance between essential work and improving development tools. Learn to identify and tackle different "yak shaving" scenarios for enhanced team productivity and smoother workflows.
Practical Tips and Tricks for CI - CD Success
Practical tips for improving CI/CD pipelines, covering speed, security, and team involvement. Learn strategies to optimize build performance, manage risks, and foster a DevOps culture for successful continuous delivery.
Personalities at Work
Explore personality psychology and its impact on workplace dynamics. Learn how individuals act out of character to advance personal projects, and gain insights into team behavior and leadership.
Live the Anthem - Just Be Good
Inspiring speech by soccer coach John Herdman on living with purpose, overcoming adversity, and finding your "true north" through lessons from the Canadian national anthem.