I have an article posted at InfoQ, Swarming Across Distance. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. You have to think about how to swarm. It’s not always intuitively obvious. Enjoy!
Yahoo’s CEO lied on his resume. He does not have a degree in Computer Science. Well, many senior managers of high tech organizations don’t. So, that should have been okay. There are two questions here: Why did he feel the need to lie? Did he even realize he was lying? Why did anyone feel the
Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt, you have a much bigger problem. Not just because the technical debt is likely bigger. Not just because you have more people. But because you also geographically distributed teams, and those teams are almost always
One of the things that’s so hard about hiring these days is that it’s so dependent on your personal network. LinkedIn is part of your network. Twitter has to be a part of your network. As part of the updated hiring book, I have a section devoted to networking with Twitter. I thought I’d test
I’ve been writing a series of management myths this year. I didn’t realize when myth #3 went live and #4 went live yesterday. Management Myth #3: We Must Treat Everyone the Same Way and Management Myth #4: I Don’t Need One-on-Ones are up. Please leave comments over at Techwell.
“Hey, Jim, guess what? I incented my agile team to work faster and harder. I told them if they doubled their velocity, I would give them a team bonus. And it worked! In just one iteration, they went from 23 points to 46 points. Is that team a great team, or what?” – a not-so-agile
I’ve been talking to people whose management cares about their velocity. “My management wants us to double our velocity.” Or, “My management wants us to do more in a sprint.” Or, “My management wants to know when we will be a hyper-performing team, so they want to know when we will get 12x velocity like
If you are looking for a job, you can’t ignore Twitter. It’s a great source of job leads. You don’t need to have a Twitter id. But, you do need to know how to search Twitter. Learn to Love Hashtags Hashtags are your friend. Go to Twitter.com or and in the search box, enter job
I have posted my two most recent Pragmatic Manager email newsletters: Building Rapport Distributed? Yes. Alone? No. If you think you subscribe, but you are not receiving your own personal copy, email me. We’ll discern what is going on with your subscription and fix it. If you don’t already subscribe, and you would like your
I am working on a brand new edition of what used to be Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People. I will be publishing this revision electronically first on leanpub. I have streamlined the language. I have added much more cultural fit material. I have added