Topic: People & Leadership (4 articles)
Sometimes People Have to Grab Hold of the Electric Fence
Sometimes people have to grab hold of the electric fence. Sometimes you have to pull them back from it. The craft of leadership is knowing which is which — and a Type A vs Type B decision framework that helps you get it right more often than wrong.
Work On the Org, Not In the Org
Every CTO I have watched get ejected from a senior role had the same root cause — they worked in the org rather than on it. Your job is not to pull the train. Your job is to build an engine that can pull the train. A practical guide to the 1:1 cadence, the hiring standard, and the cultural discipline that produces CTOs and CPOs who last.
Stop Overloading Your Roadmap: Why WIP Limits Are the Most Important Rule in Product Planning
Why the single most important rule for building great product roadmaps is limiting work in progress—and how WIP limits transform both delivery speed and stakeholder conversations.
Size REALLY Matters: Finding the Squad Size Sweet Spot
Your Squads should be three developers, plus or minus two. Discover why squad size impacts planning effectiveness, why individual-level planning creates fragility, and how to structure teams for accountability and successful delivery.