Why are we even doing this?
I used to do a little competition shooting for fun on the weekends... The shooting range would set up scenarios where you would have to shoot multiple targets at varying…
Who are your customers?
Your business is focused on its customers (hopefully) but could internal developers be customers of a different sort? I've been writing a lot this week asking thought-provoking questions. Today I…
I just can’t work here anymore…
What's the impact of a company's culture? How does a healthy culture propel the entire business forward? What about an unhealthy one? A culture where people are stressed and burnt…
I’m losing how much?!
Is high turnover just the cost of doing business? Think about it. With a bit of looking around, the IT industry is experiencing around a 13% turnover rate. (It could…
Fear is not a strategy
I was talking with a developer friend recently about the developer productivity issues his company was dealing with. In a nutshell, the CEO is pushing the devs to release faster…