In Part 1 of the “Delivery as a Product” post, I described how important it is to capture and analyze metrics about your delivery pipeline. This is critical because one of the main goals of this productization of delivery is to relentlessly look for improvements. And you know how the Read more…
This might become the first of a series of posts about how to build highly efficient and performing teams. As you can guess, building best-in-class teams require many different facets and skills, but in this post, I wanted to touch on building a sense of purpose and fulfillment within the Read more…
When you have a team that is building a customer-facing product, it’s a common mistake to build your entire product team and associated processes around the application. In fact, you can model everything as a product, and extending that idea, your entire delivery pipeline can be also a product in its Read more…
The Context Before you accuse me of clickbait – here me out. This is a very important lesson for people that want to grow into leadership roles. Technical leads and developers growing into product / company leadership (e.g., VP Technology, Directors, etc.) Gaining seniority and experience as Technical Architects Incorporating Read more…
For many years I’ve been responsible for setting up technology and software development processes, for our clients, and for our company. This includes all the different items you would typically associate with the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle): Planning & estimations Requirements definition Managing the technical backlog CI/CD – continuous integration Read more…
Hundreds of articles have been written about Zwift, its success, and how it took the cycling and indoor trainer world by storm. Yet I haven’t seen one that goes a little deeper than just the obvious generalities about how it gamified the indoor trainer experience. That was my main motivation Read more…
The benefits of cloud computing and all its flavors have been well documented already. For the purpose of this post I will not dive deep into the overall pros & cons. I will focus on how cloud has changed the game within the context of innovation and how it has Read more…