
Why is psychological safety important to software engineering teams?
Agile, Collaboration, complex work, leadership, management, psychological safety
4 minute read
Before you can answer this question you need to know what psychological safety is. Amy Edmondson in her book The Fearless Organisation describes it as:
The belief that the work environment is safe for interpersonal…

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…

My biggest takeaways from AgileTD 2020: The future of testers isn’t in automation or testing
Agile, Collaboration, Kanban, leaders, leadership, links, psychological safety, Quality Awareness, talks, Test automation, testability, Tips, TOC, videos
I was lucky enough to speak at AgileTD this year and also attend some of the talks. These are my main takeaways from the conference based on the talks that I was able to make.
My confirmation bias sense is tingling with this but…
The…

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…

How to learn from failure
Agile, feedback, psychological safety, quality, Reading[Organisations] that catch, correct, and learn from failure before others do will succeed - Amy Edmundson

Building Quality in via Testability
Agile, Collaboration, psychological safety, quality, testability, Uncategorised, unit testing7 minute read
Back in March 2018 I visited The Design Museum in London and came across the above installation.
What you can see is technology design classics all the way from the first transistor radios on one side to the very first digital…