The Engineering Leaders Hired by Startups
It started with a tweet: Agreed, particularly in looking for an external hire, it’s to compliment a missing piece within the current team and more often than not it’s the management piece. — Allen...
Management
Review: Five Dysfunctions of a Team
I've read a good amount of Dan Brown's novels. It's a guilty pleasure in reading; I know that every story features literally the same character, much of the same...
Code is a Cultural Artifact
So I've been accused, more than once, of obsessing over organizational structures. Heck, I just waxed poetically about Conway's Law recently, and that was just after leading a couple of sessions...
Unpacking Conway's Law
I've been thinking a lot recently about organizational structure and design[1]. Eventually, I'm reminded and inevitably return to Conway's Law: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly)...
Parenthood :: Management
Does becoming a parent make for a better manager? I remember vividly when I first brought it up as a possibility. I was interviewing at a few companies after deciding to end my time at...
Review: Trillion Dollar Coach
Even executives of the Fortune 500 need coaches, too. And if a number of these companies happen to be in Silicon Valley, at a time when the technology industry is dominating the upper-end of public...