Last week, I read an old blog post on As Chris Daily said, people need to “let go of the perception that they are in charge. In reality, you were never in charge, but you told everyone you were.” His words sat with me while I did my usual routine in trying to shepherd code from development to… Continue reading Stop managing and start helping
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Building cross functional teams
Scrum is a style of Agile software development that has become very popular. However, like its namesake in Rugby, the development methodology depends on the ideal that the team is at its greatest power when it moves ahead together as a unit: a scrum. “Scrum relies on a self-organizing, cross-functional team. … The team is cross-functional… Continue reading Building cross functional teams
Development Tools
Developers do the work. It’s just the truth. I can coach and teach but I don’t make the product go. It’s a frustrating a rewarding thing to be the coach. But it also means that I have the responsibility to get the team whatever they need to get the job done. Today I want to talk about… Continue reading Development Tools