Ship, Show, Ask
In fast-moving teams, one of the biggest tensions we face is this: How do we keep shipping without compromising quality …
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People skills
So, you're a software developer, and you've mastered coding languages, algorithms, and all the tech stuff. That's awesom…
What is Waterfall?
Waterfall is like following a straight path where you move from one step to the next in a defined order — like water flo…
The Phoenix Project
This is a story about an impossible project in which the people around are constantly playing politics, busy fixing crit…
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 …
The Lean Startup
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across …
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…
The Peter Principle
The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires…
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…
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…
The Essential Drucker
The Essential Drucker contains twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, a…
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'…
Continuous Discovery Habits
Continuous Discovery Habits (2021) explores how product managers and designers can keep making a positive impact on thei…
The Great CEO Within
Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, eff…
The Project Management Triangle
A triangle of time, quality and cost. it's an indicator that these three parameters are interconnected. You can fix one …
The Starfish and the Spider
If you cut off a spider's head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into …
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…
Team Topologies
Team Topologies focuses on how to set up dynamic team structures and interaction modes that can help teams adapt quickly…
Update your team to be more extreme
Our profession is constantly evolving; therefore, it demands a non-stop learning process. Embracing the change is not op…
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…
Leadership is Language
In this book, the former submarine commander Captain L. David Marquet dives deep into one of the most investigated marin…
Red Work vs Blue Work
Blue Work and Red Work are concepts that David Marquet describes in his book 'Leadership is Language. Both require diffe…
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…
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.
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while havin…
Scrum
Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and …
High Output Management
The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single …
The Manager Path
A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Sprint
Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization.…