1/ Heads up!
I'm preparing a guide to fixing organisational problems in scaling software development teams.
I'd love to talk to you if you're a founder or leader dealing with this! Things I'll cover (feedback welcomed):
I'm preparing a guide to fixing organisational problems in scaling software development teams.
I'd love to talk to you if you're a founder or leader dealing with this! Things I'll cover (feedback welcomed):
2/ A decade plus programming/team building and leadership experience across start ups, global mega banks and sizes inbetween.
3/ A shit ton of research on complexity, psycology, climatic changes in our industry and how the best teams in the world operate. Many of the best resources here have come from people not so much in the public eye, or misunderstood now. Boyd, Musashi, Goldratt and more.
4/ There's also a sprinkling of lived exerience from my time in the Royal Marines. This is much more of a "cross domain gut check" than a source. I.e. principles explained in research that I recognise from serving in high permance teams.
5/ I also lean on other recent military derived wisdom I value heavily:
Team of Teams - McChrystal
Extreme Ownership - @jockowillink & @LeifBabin
Turn the Ship Around - @ldavidmarquet
All contextualized for tech teams in scaling start ups
Team of Teams - McChrystal
Extreme Ownership - @jockowillink & @LeifBabin
Turn the Ship Around - @ldavidmarquet
All contextualized for tech teams in scaling start ups
@jockowillink @LeifBabin @ldavidmarquet 7/ #PURPOSE. All about defining the #mission and #leadership. Setting direction and keeping people on the same page but balancing that with recognising and exploiting #opportunity in an ever faster moving world.
@jockowillink @LeifBabin @ldavidmarquet 8/ #PRINCIPLES: The most important takeaways from complexity, networks, flow and performance. Solid battle tested teachings like #OODA, #cynefin, #TOC. Along with some of the most interesting, modern research in agent based and complex adaptive systems
@jockowillink @LeifBabin @ldavidmarquet 9/ #PRACTICES: A set of SOPs I've found to work to keep people engaged. This is about extracting the best of best practice while ditching the cargo culting and avoiding dogma.
@jockowillink @LeifBabin @ldavidmarquet 10/ If you're a founder or tech leader in a mid sized, aggressively scaling company who's curious about how this smorgasboard of awesome might apply to your challenges I'd love to offer you a (free) sneak peek in return for some feedback. HMU!
