A Sprint Calendar That Actually Works
If you are a regular reader, you will know I have been managing teams using Agile for years. Through much trial and error I have landed on this sprint calendar as the most productive. Please […]
Management
7 Pillars of Resilient Service Engineering
I recently wrote this email to my team and realized it could help others so I am posting it here… Folks, I recently had the opportunity to interact with a number of teams across Microsoft: MSN, […]
A Tool to Fix the One Thing Agile Does Not Explain
Agile, agile, agile, that’s all I hear. Ridiculous. When did not being a robot blindly following a set of rules become so unusual? Seriously, applying critical thought to your work everyday, should not be the […]
Your Cruzados arn’t worth squat here, use these 8, no 9, motivators instead.
Cruzados, I love the way that sounds, sad it died a premature death. It was the currency of Brazil from 1986 – 1989. OK so perhaps its death was not premature. Actually at the time […]
12 reasons employees love you
OK, that was a trick. No one was going to click on an article titled 12 reasons your employees hate you. Call it bait and switch, regardless you need to read this article. Why? Because, […]
How to tell if someone kicks ass
My first job out of college was Trust Associate for Bank of America. Why you ask? 3 reasons: I graduated with a degree in economics My grades were terrible It was 1990, no one was […]
One Simple Rule to Reduce Conflict
People do not understand what makes someone a jerk at work. Sure, sometimes its obvious, they are a backstabbing piece of shit, but usually you hear things like, so n’ so is just hard to […]
The Tao of Todd 