In-person management is sometimes like riding shotgun
While sitting in the front seat may make me feel I have more control, I really don't.
Gervais, meet Westrum
The Gervais Principle, as dark as it may be, only explains a mere 80% of organizations.
How trusting is your organization's culture?
Organizations that tend toward trusting cultures exhibit higher software delivery performance and higher levels of job satisfaction.
What does the team say?
Often a mediocre decision made by the team is better than a perfect decision made by a single leader.
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Tiny DevOps episode #39 Bryan Finster — The One Agile Scaling Framework to Rule Them All
Bryan Finster returns to Tiny DevOps, this time to explain the amazing benefits of his new Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework (SAD MF), the silver bullet that you, and literally everyone else, should be using.
Tiny DevOps episode #38 Matt K Parker — Radical Collaboration, how Radical Enterprises do it, and how you can, too
More and more organizations are adopting a "Radically Collaborative" approach to business. Matt K. Parker, author of the new book "A Radical Enterprise" joins me to discuss what this means, why it's desirable, and how to begin adopting these practices in our own organizations.
Do you have a Star Trek team?
How many people are on your team? How many of them look like you? Do you have a Star Trek team?
You can't help everyone
Not everyone feels the need for your solutions. That's okay. You don't need to convince them.
Adventures In DevOps 097: Does Scrum belong in DevOps?
Will and Jonathan have a conversation about whether or not you can use Scrum with DevOps.
Adventures In DevOps 094: Starting DevOps at Work
The panel puts their heads together to talk about how to bring DevOps practices into a work situation based where they're not implemented. They discuss the various pro's and con's of specific practices and how to get people on board with adoption.
Engineering is like high school
After we find land a first job we learn that correct answers often often technically inferior solutions, answers, or proposals win the day. Why?