In my last post a couple of months ago I reported that I was on the lookout for a full-time program management role to help me continue to develop my work with teams and ground it in the specifics of a real-life situation. About three weeks ago I started work as a full-time program manager at [...]
As this website attests, I'm on a mission to help technology teams be more effective. For the last couple of years that mission has taken the form of full-time writing and speaking, and working with teams as a consultant. The mission continues--and so does the passion that drives it--but it's [...]
Phyllis Turner-Brim, Peyina Lin-Roberts, Jeanne Yu, Joe Anderson, Molly Huber I wrote a chapter in my book on Cultivating Attention about Connectedness (more on that here). At a couple of recent meetups I was reminded of how complicated and multi-layered the experience of connectedness within[...]
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My book Cultivating Attention is now available on Amazon as a paperback or Kindle book. Here is my first shipment of author copies, which arrived today:
This post is excerpted from the Connectedness chapter of Cultivating Attention: the Paradoxical Secret of Team Success. Agile software development includes a wide range of practices. The common characteristic of these practices is an incremental and iterative approach: do the work rapidly and [...]
The last few weeks have been mostly consumed with getting my forthcoming book finished. It has been a rich and exhilarating time--an experience I won't soon forget. Along the way there have been heavenly experiences ("This book is actually going to happen! It's actually pretty good! This is a [...]
This past Monday was the first day in many weeks that I didn't posted a snippet of content from the book I'm working on (working title: Cultivating Team Alignment). That's mostly because I'm moving into high gear to get the book out the door by the end of the year. I'll post some updates on my [...]
The 1980s TV character Angus “Mac” MacGyver is a secret agent with a unique ability to improvise solutions on the spot with odd combinations of found objects. A characteristic MacGyver solution: “Alright MacGyver, think. Rope…a smoke alarm…sheets of plywood…yeah. It just might work.” [...]
Psychological frameworks are a fascinating feast. There’s a huge number of items on the menu, including contemporary psychometrically validated tests like DISC, widely used profiling tools like Meyers-Briggs and the Enneagram, practical workplace-oriented assessments like StrengthsFinder, and [...]
If you have an intention to work with cognitive bias, there is no more powerful or beneficial place to direct your attention than the planning fallacy. Anyone who’s been within a stone’s throw of project management knows about this one. First defined by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Twersky in 1979, [...]