Team Motivation
Teams, as well as individuals, experience setbacks and obstacles. Managers would like to see our teams successfully overcome them, rally together and creatively move on to the next step. And…
Climbing Out of the WIP Trap
Excessive work in progress, and too much multi-tasking, slow teams down and keep them from reaching their goals. Addressing WIP is a critical management task in any development paradigm. One…
The 50 Person Threshold
Right around the addition of the 50th person, something often goes awry in a startup company. Between 30 and 50 people, I’ve seen it happen that the group loses the…
Should Managers Code?
Judging from the job descriptions I see for management roles, a lot of people think that a “hands-on manager” should be making pull requests and writing production code. Even managers…