People skills
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Prisoner's Dilemma
The Prisoner's Dilemma illustrates the complexities of strategic decision-making, where individuals must choose between …
What kills agility?
Why Agile, if you already do Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or Waterfall? How we manage an organization defines its quality. Excel…
Radical Candor
Radical Candor is a management philosophy developed by Kim Scott, a former Google leader. It's a crash course on how to …
Effective pair programming
Let's first establish what pair programming is: Two people working together on the same problem at the same time. It is …
Great engineering
Coding is not just another job. In the right environment, writing software can be really fun and, even more, it can be y…
Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
Embarking on the path to high team performance involves understanding Tuckman's Model — a roadmap through the stages of …
Crucial Conversations
Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say …
Unhealthy working environment
An unhealthy working environment can have various symptoms that negatively impact both the physical and mental well-bein…
It's Your Ship
It's Your Ship is a leadership book written by D. Michael Abrashoff, a former commander of the USS Benfold, a guided mis…
How do you get everyone on board?
I was invited to the WeAreDevelopers World Congress to give a tech talk about my experience with Extreme Programming and…
Agile Project Management
Projects that followed a Waterfall methodology tended to exceed their expenses in the first initiative over time, while …
Effective Remote Work
An effective remote work environment is about treating everyone as remote, with everyone in mind having the same level, …
Introducing a new tech stack
To introduce a new tech stack for the entire team, it's important to bring "why?" and a strategy to make it happen among…
Great leadership
As business scales, the leaders' primary focus must shift from customers to employees. Therefore, I would like to share …
Adapt or die
Told through the story of one bold company (People First IT), Adapt or Die takes readers through the unparalleled busine…
The infinite game
From the bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today's ever-chan…
Interview about XP and Agile
My interview with devm.io regarding Agile and Extreme Programming. Agile is more about HOW you do certain things, rather…
Ignoring Scrum to get more Agile?
People become slaves to systems that are supposed to help. Boring meetings are killing agile. Meetings require active pa…
Working agile with non-agile teams
Let's assume you already know what the agile manifesto is. Let's consider that you apply most of the extreme programming…
Different beliefs about software quality
What to do when working on "bad software" and you can't improve it because it is against the beliefs of your peers? Shou…
Dare to lead
Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for rec…
The beauty of leadership
Leadership is not a synonym for management, it has nothing to do with titles or personal attributes. So, what is it? How…
Understanding people
One of the most complicated challenges for everyone is avoiding misunderstandings and being aware that other people don'…
The Great CEO Within
Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, eff…
The path to seniority in software
The seniority in our software industry is more polluted by marketing and politics than in reality. What can we do about …
Bikeshedding
People within an organization typically give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.
Dunbar number
Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relation…
The power of authority and obedience
Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another p…
Modern CTO
In Modern CTO, Joel Beasley provides readers with an in-depth road map on how to successfully navigate the unexplored an…
Leaders Eat Last
A company's biggest strength doesn't lie in its products or services. It always lies in its people, and in their ability…
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
This book is a leadership fable about a tech company that is struggling to get more customers. The C level is not workin…
Start with Why
Start with Why asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential…
Leadership is Language
In this book, the former submarine commander Captain L. David Marquet dives deep into one of the most investigated marin…
Turn the Ship Around!
The book is about his leadership theories to how he implemented a fresh leadership model. Including the limitations of a…
Responsibilities of a Tech Lead
The Trident Career Model by Patrick Kua has three tracks. Each track represents where people spend most of their time or…
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
A great compilation of all topics that are important for management: 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring and laying off, w…
Conformity experiments
To what extent do social forces alter people's opinions? Which aspect of the group influence is most important — the siz…
Peopleware
Software development is about people: when, how and where they can best work together. Not about programming languages o…
The Art of Leadership
Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you whe…
97 Things Every Engineering Manager should know
As a manager your work is to create clarity, clarity, and more clarity.
Pull Requests vs Pair Programming
Let's talk about the benefits of Pull Requests and Pair Programming, and my thoughts on these after some years of experi…
Sharing your git patches
Discover another way of sharing suggestions with your development team.
Never split the difference
From policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, to becoming the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator…
The Manager Path
A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Extreme Programming Explained
Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile software development framework that aims to produce higher quality software, and hi…
How to improve your tech-talk (or any other presentation)
We have found ourselves attending a meeting that felt like we were wasting our time with a monologue that is either hard…
The Clean Coder
A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers