Tag: company culture

  • Using AI to Upskill Your Employees

    Using AI to Upskill Your Employees

    Discover how to use AI to automate employee upskilling. This framework turns company roadmaps and employee resumes into targeted training that boosts retention.

  • Five Reasons Your Waterfall Team Can’t Go Agile

    Five Reasons Your Waterfall Team Can’t Go Agile

    Plus Five Techniques To Change Their Minds If you’re interested in this headline, it is safe to assume three things about you: Agile is older than Windows XP, yet it still gives developers, project managers and business analysts that “too trendy to be legit” vibe. And their suspicion is reasonable. Like all the other buzzwords…

  • Is your app sparking joy?

    Is your app sparking joy?

    Talking about Marie Kondo might be cliche by now, but making outdated pop culture references is the hallmark of our industry. Fortunately it is incredibly applicable to the topic of mobile apps in the modern business. Consumer and stakeholder expectations have evolved, and we’re reverting to an ecosystem where having a mobile app is a…

  • What your company website’s source code is saying about your business

    What your company website’s source code is saying about your business

    We can apply Conway’s Law to learn about a company’s structure and values, and the lessons are insightful to insiders & outsiders Catapulted into most developer’s set of oft-quoted computer laws by The Mythical Man Month, Conway’s Law says: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations…

  • InnerSource – Using open source best practices to help your company

    InnerSource – Using open source best practices to help your company

    At Minnebar in March 2017, I spoke to developers about a way to improve their corporate cultures by piggy backing on some best practices from the open source community. It remains a topic that I believe in (at least of 2024), but one that remains difficult for large corporations to adopt.

  • Six things we should agree about email.

    Six things we should agree about email.

    We get it. You like email. Now stop abusing it so the rest of us can get back to work. There is no shortage of advice about email. Some of them are pretty extreme. Some want to destroy it altogether. But I prefer to accept a reality where incremental improvements have a higher probability of success. So I bring to…