Making the decision to leave is never easy. It’s easily doubled when you’re the Leader of a team because not only are you now leaving an organization, you’re now leaving a group of people that you have invested an incredible amount of energy into their own personal and team growth and development that to leaveContinue reading “The Leadership Exit”
Category Archives: Growth
How do you Measure your Team?
When you think of the work your team does, what metrics are important to you? How often they are in the office? How many bugs originate from code they are writing? What their overall contribution to releases are? What their bug return rate from QA is? How many unit tests they create with their code?Continue reading “How do you Measure your Team?”
Finding your Non-Leadership Style
Leadership Styles are a tricky conversation primarily because no one wants to be pigeonholed being “that” type of Leader (when no one cares for having “that” type of Leader in their organization). But it gets worse, as you start to work with other leaders (maybe you have a group of Team Leads you are mentoring)Continue reading “Finding your Non-Leadership Style”
Bad Renovations in Software
Recently, while doing some work in my basement, I had to remove a vertical bulkhead. Actually, I didn’t have to remove but wanted to see what was behind it after staring at it for so many years. When I opened it up, it was empty, there was nothing of use behind it – no vents,Continue reading “Bad Renovations in Software”
Choosing between the Rewrite or Fix It
It’s easier to rewrite something than to figure out what is going wrong. It’s easier to start from scratch, ignore the history and do it your way. It’s easier to ignore, then engage. The decision to rewrite versus fixing a code problem is always rooted in emotion and not the code. We Can Do ItContinue reading “Choosing between the Rewrite or Fix It”
The Proximity to Success Fallacy
Does the proximity of your team members to one another (i.e., how close they are, if they are remote) determine the success of your project? No. Does our success change if we sit close to each other? No. Does it have any impact on it? Only in our heads. If you were to go backContinue reading “The Proximity to Success Fallacy”
The Organizational Chart You Need
Companies invest an insurmountable time in their Organizational Charts. They are a badge of honour showing who reports to who and how the order of things come to be. As soon as we start our careers, the goal becomes a game of trying to get from the bottom to the top. Or so we’re told.Continue reading “The Organizational Chart You Need”
Becoming the Self-Organizing, Self-Managing Team
One of the best pieces of feedback I ever received when leaving an organization was – “The team is running fine on it’s own, I don’t think we’re going to need to hire someone to replace you.” At first glance, I did feel that familiar twinge of failure that made me feel as though myContinue reading “Becoming the Self-Organizing, Self-Managing Team”
The Next Generation of Leaders
I was having a conversation with a fellow colleague last week when they asked me what the skillset required for the next generation of leaders would be. The question took me aback as I tried to weigh everything we had just finished talking about in regards to team, leadership and culture with the current eventsContinue reading “The Next Generation of Leaders”
New Team Culture
Many who previously were never able to, never had the opportunity to or never considered it, are getting used to working remotely from their main office, away from their team. The adjustment to working remote is not a simple switch that gets flipped et voila it all works perfectly. Like working in an office, workingContinue reading “New Team Culture”
Code Your Way Up 