Business Practices A Flat Organization & Self-Managing Teams: a Recipe For Success Imagine a workplace where management layers don't bottleneck decisions. That's reality for a flat organization with self-managing teams.
Project & Team Management Build Trust as a Team: Why It’s Important & How to Do It We can’t control the baggage someone brings to a new job, but we can foster strong working relationships by building trust as a team.
Personal Optimization Software Developers: Don’t Do it Later. Do it Now-ish. Procrastinating: we all do it. Sometimes things come up that we don’t feel like dealing with in the moment, so we say we’ll do it later.
Project & Team Management Navigate the Swamp of Sadness When Your Development Project Gets Bogged Down If you ever feel like you are getting bogged down in the Swamp of Sadness on a development project, here are a few tips.
Project & Team Management 3 Characteristics of Successful Teams I want to talk about three of the characteristics that make successful teams possible: trust, ownership, and autonomy.
Project & Team Management Stop Settling for “Good Enough” in Your Team Space Ever been on a healthy team where collaborative energy is high and you’re excited to head to work? It’s magical, but what’s the secret sauce?
Project & Team Management Don’t Be a Hero: Harness the Power of Teamwork Instead I've noticed a particular organizational pattern that really bothers me because of how pervasive and dysfunctional it is: Hero Syndrome.
Project & Team Management 6 Ways Junior Developers Deliver Value on Product Teams While senior developers bring invaluable expertise, junior developers play a pivotal role in forming high-performing, innovative teams.
Culture Peer Recognition: 3 Ways to Reignite Engagement and Build Team Culture When fewer people feel engaged, teams feel more disconnected and less effective. Here are 3 ways to bring back the sense of community.
Culture Peer Recognition: Why It Matters and How It Fuels Team Success I love that all avenues for peer recognition offer to meet Atoms where they're at regarding how they like to give and receive appreciation.
Project & Team Management Why We Skip Friday Standups (And Other Small Adjustments That Make a Big Difference) Skipping Friday standups might sound like a minor change, but this and other small tweaks have made a big impact on my team's workflow.
Personal Optimization How to Set Boundaries with Your Team and Leadership When deadline pressure mounts, how do we manage chaos without losing our sanity? Let's chat about setting boundaries!
