Working With the Garage Door Open
Working in the open lets people help while the work is still shapeable. The real skill is pushing the right signal to the right room.
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mentoring 
16 posts
Growing other developers without doing the work for them.
Radical Candor
Kim Scott, former Google leader, on being a great manager: empathetic and results-oriented, where people can speak freely.
It's Your Ship
Michael Abrashoff on how he transformed the performance and culture of the USS Benfold, and the leadership principles behind it.
How Do You Get Everyone on Board?
From my talk at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress: my experience with Extreme Programming and the benefits of embracing change.
Great Leadership
As organizations grow, leaders must shift focus from customers to employees. Key principles for scaling leadership effectively.
Dare to lead
Leadership is not about titles or power. It is about recognising potential in people and developing it. Courage over comfort.
The Beauty of Leadership
Leadership is action, not a title. It has nothing to do with management or hierarchy. What it really means and how anyone can lead.
The Great CEO Within
How to scale from startup to company with a system of accountability, real problem solving and transparent feedback.
The Path to Seniority in Software
Real seniority goes beyond job titles. It's about impact, mentoring others, owning outcomes, and raising the bar for your entire team.
Update Your Team to Be More Extreme
Software demands non-stop learning. How to create the spaces your team needs to leave the comfort zone and embrace change.
Turn the Ship Around!
Marquet turned the submarine Santa Fe around by moving from leader-follower to leader-leader. On the limits of top-down hierarchy.
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 energy.
The Art of Leadership
Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time. Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.
97 Things Every Engineering Manager should know
As a manager your work is to create clarity, clarity, and more clarity.
The Manager Path
Camille Fournier maps the path from engineer to CTO: 1:1s, mentoring, and what changes at each level of technical leadership.
Hands-on Refactoring and TDD
A live coding session on test-first development and refactoring, solving a code kata from scratch in pair and mob programming.