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…
Change Management and Motivation
A while back, I posted about Peter de Jager’s Seven Questions of Change Management. My old post is here and here's an updated link to de Jager’s own words. …
Imposter Syndrome
One way to look at imposter syndrome is as an internal, self-generated mental health issue -- a plague of self-doubt and self-confidence that undermines one's ability to work. This feeling…
Managing Burnout
Work on conventions can be intense and overwhelming at times. Schedule pressures, conflicts with others, and sometimes just the mismatch between what we aspire to and the real constraints we…
Thank You Note Culture
I'd like to live in a world in which people are good at saying "thank you" and even seek out opportunities to do so. Whether the medium of the "thank…
What the heck is “Culture”, anyway?
"Culture" is such a useful word, and so hard to pin down. Often, when discussions of organizational or community culture come up, people get lost in a big long discussion…
Keeping Communications Clear
This weekend I learned a thing about management communications. I've yet to see an organization that doesn'tt complain about how terrible communication is. If only communications were just one thing!…
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