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Team Motivation

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:November 1, 2023
  • Post category:Leadership

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…

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Climbing Out of the WIP Trap

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:October 26, 2023
  • Post category:Agile processes

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…

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The 50 Person Threshold

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:August 14, 2023
  • Post category:Organizational Design

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…

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Should Managers Code?

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:August 8, 2023
  • Post category:Leadership

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…

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Change Management and Motivation

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:November 29, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

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. …

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Imposter Syndrome

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:November 9, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

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…

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Managing Burnout

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:August 20, 2020
  • Post category:Leadership/Uncategorized

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…

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Thank You Note Culture

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:February 5, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

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…

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What the heck is “Culture”, anyway?

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:February 5, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

"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…

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Keeping Communications Clear

  • Post author:Rachel Silber
  • Post published:February 4, 2019
  • Post category:Uncategorized

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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