Project & Team Management When the Rookie Becomes the Vet: Soft Skills for First-Time Tech Leads I’ll share key insights and essential strategies that will help you navigate the thrilling but challenging transition to tech lead seamlessly.
Project & Team Management The Outsized Role Trust Plays in Your Software Project’s Success Trust (or lack thereof) has an immense impact on a team's creativity and ability to navigate uncertainty, as well as efficiency and output.
Project & Team Management Why Self-Organizing Teams Still Need a Delivery Lead What is the role of a Delivery Lead on a self-organizing team? Delivery Leads supercharge teams to help them work more sustainably.
Project & Team Management How to Successfully Ramp Off a Development Project When ramping off of a project, make sure to follow these steps to ensure the future success of your team and the project.
Project & Team Management Questions to Help Your Software Team Create Clarity, Reduce Stress When you're lacking direction, asking the right questions can help you create clarity, reduce stress, and take productive action.
Development Practices Improve Your Codebase Incrementally with Team Refactoring Goals Sometimes, the team isn't all on the same page. On a recent project, we implemented a strategy to alleviate this: team refactoring goals.
Project & Team Management Transform Software Teams with Feature Captains As a tech lead on my project, I witnessed the transformative power of the feature captain role. Here's how our team benefits.
Development Practices Useful Tools for Facilitating Planning Poker Estimation Planning Poker provides an engaging way for the team to discuss implementation approaches and build consensus around the effort involved.
Managing Your Team Why Developers and Managers Should Co-Own the Backlog In the most successful projects, the backlog is co-owned by developers and managers. Learn why this approach to backlog management works.
Culture Food Builds Better Software I like eating food, but I love sharing that experience with others more. These are my thoughts on eating with coworkers.
Culture How My Atomic Coworkers Supported Me Through Tragedy Atomic employees recently put their company values into practice by supporting a coworker — me — through tragedy.
Project & Team Management How I Support My Team When I Can’t Be There Over the years, I’ve cultivated a few methods for staying in sync with my team even when I’m running from one meeting to the next.
