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Jul 29, 2022

How do Small Teams have a Big Impact in Large Companies?

Sometimes it feels like we are swimming in a giant sea of products, people and teams. Other times we forget that there are oceans of activity going on all around us. Developing software in a large company comes with a unique set of challenges. For a small engineering team, having…

Software Development

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How do Small Teams have a Big Impact in Large Companies?
How do Small Teams have a Big Impact in Large Companies?
Software Development

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Jan 15, 2022

Pointing and Calling

A small leadership lesson. Tokyo train systems are legendary for running on time. How do they do it? A key element is pointing and calling — when taking an action, the operator points and calls it out so that everyone knows what is happening. It may seem like drawing attention…

Leadership

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Pointing and Calling
Pointing and Calling
Leadership

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Nov 26, 2021

The Overview Effect & the Inductive Attitude

The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift that is reported by astronauts when they see the earth from outer space for the first time. It is a change brought on by experiencing the world differently. Strongly held beliefs unfold. …

Software Development

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The Overview Effect & the Inductive Attitude
The Overview Effect & the Inductive Attitude
Software Development

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Published in The Startup

·Dec 14, 2020

Get More Out of Your Checklists: Liminal States in Software Delivery

When we spend time focussing on specific problems, it comes at the cost of the ability to focus on others. The mind becomes conditioned to make certain things invisible, no matter how many times we look them over. In the case of this article, it might be a spelling mistake…

Software

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Get More Out of Your Checklists: Liminal States in Software Delivery
Get More Out of Your Checklists: Liminal States in Software Delivery
Software

4 min read


Published in Marker

·Sep 22, 2020

Are You Telling the Story of Your Software?

This is Minard’s analysis of the fall of Napoleon’s Grand Army at the French invasion of Russia in 1812, considered a masterpiece of analytic design: It features in my favourite book by Edward Tufte, “Beautiful Evidence”, as the focal piece for explaining the principles of data presentation. …

Software

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Are You Telling the Story of Your Software?
Are You Telling the Story of Your Software?
Software

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May 8, 2020

Software is Synthetic

Key Takeaways “Synthetic” means to find truth through experience, to use experiential practices to build understanding. Software systems demand synthetic problem solving — we test, observe, and experiment to validate our work and ascertain its value. The history of building software systems is a history of discovering and formalizing synthetic ways of…

Software Development

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Software is Synthetic
Software is Synthetic
Software Development

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Published in The Startup

·Mar 20, 2020

Facing the new build vs. buy problem in application delivery

How to make better strategic sourcing decisions for your software supply chain The market for application components delivered in the cloud using a subscription model is exploding — it spans the software supply chain and it is growing constantly. Given the high quality of these component services, it can be difficult to determine how to source your parts — should you use…

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Facing the new build vs. buy problem in application delivery
Facing the new build vs. buy problem in application delivery

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Published in The Startup

·Dec 13, 2019

The Software Supply Chain

Thinking about software delivery as part of a supply chain can help clarify the problems large enterprises face, and provides a better way to move forward with integrating activities and achieving systemic benefits Seasoned business leaders are experiencing an uneasy feeling of déjà vu. Adapting to the digital world, they…

DevOps

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The Software Supply Chain
The Software Supply Chain
DevOps

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Published in Marker

·Dec 3, 2019

Why Companies Should Be Just as Worried About Cultural Debt as Technical Debt

Technology decisions that ignore cultural debt will involve more cycles and greater risk — Businesses today are faced with myriad challenges to innovate and optimize. In doing so, we often need to make decisions that borrow against the future. This can come in a tangible form, such as taking money from investors to fund growth, or in more inconspicuous forms, such as making tradeoffs…

Culture

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Don’t Let Cultural Debt Bring Down Your Business
Don’t Let Cultural Debt Bring Down Your Business
Culture

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Aug 25, 2019

Idempotence and the Discipline of DevOps

If you’ve spent a bit of time coding, you will come across the interesting and unusual idea of idempotence. The word not lending itself well to either spelling or pronunciation, many like me become immediately curious. A concept found deep at the heart of mathematics and computer science, idempotence is…

Agile

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Idempotence and the Discipline of DevOps
Idempotence and the Discipline of DevOps
Agile

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