
Push your own flywheel
incremental improvements, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety, talksToday marks my 20 years working in the software industry. I was going to write a post about what I've done over that time and my takeaways from all the weird and beautiful things I've done. I might still do, but below is something that's taken me nearly 20 years to realise.

3 traits of Self-leadership
Agile, leaders, leadership, management, Tips, willpower
A colleague of mine Qambar Raza recently shared this great Ted talk with me on self-leadership 👏
🎥 🍿🥤 Great leadership starts with self-leadership | Lars Sudmann
In it Lars describes three behaviour traits to improve your…

Scales of Collaboration
Agile, Collaboration, feedback, leadership, management, visulisationThe scales of collaboration can help you and your teams to work more effectively by improve your collaboration. It allows you to measure how you are currently collaborating and what you can do to improve its effectiveness. But what's wrong with our current approach and how do you use the scale?

Why is psychological safety important to software engineering teams?
Agile, Collaboration, complex work, leadership, management, psychological safety
4 minute read
Update: Scroll to the bottom for a video of what is Psychological safety and why should you care in under 10 minutes.
Before you can answer this question you need to know what psychological safety is. Amy Edmondson in her…

Three things of 2020
Collaboration, feedback, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety, Tips
3 minute read
Below are three things that when I reflect back on 2020 that stand out to me. I’ve purposely not mentioned COVID because I think this is one thing that all of us would have on our list so didn't think there was anything…

Foundations of great teams? Start with relationships
Agile, Collaboration, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety
4 mins reading time
tl;dr: check out my miro model to get the key points.
Good informal relationships are they key to better collaboration https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_khGWgWc=/
Over the last couple of years I've started to see…

Why do we respond the way we do in social situations?
leadership, management, Neuroscience, psychological safety, Uncategorised
A colleague recently shared an article with me called Managing with the brain in mind. It argues that the workplace is experienced by employees as social structure first then a workplace and that keeping this mind might lead to better employee…

The difference between leaders and managers
complex work, leaders, leadership, management
3 minute read
Tl;dr: Hybrid Leader-managers could be one of the keys to successful software teams but first you need to understand the difference between the two.
A higher quality version of the model can be found on my Miro board.
The…