Perhaps it's time to stop sheltering geeks and start fostering teammates and leaders in technology who can unlock our human potential
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/103307-stop-sheltering-geeks.html
Toward a new metric -- Key Health Indicators -- to assess healthy teams
Introduction to the work-in-progress book Engineering Team Effectiveness: A Field Guide to Fostering Powerful Technical Teams
A hierarchy of engineering needs most organisations and managers fail to understand
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/103280-the-engineering-hierarchy-of-needs.html
Rumours of Agile's death are greatly exaggerated, but there is good reason they are circulating as well
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/103284-agile-is-wonderful-agile-is-awful-heres-why.html
Generative AI is set to automate many intellectual activities--but at what cost to our brain?
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/102992-the-hidden-cost-of-cyborg-working.html
Danny Cohen wrote his proposal “On Holy Wars and a Plea For Peace” in 1980, hoping to put an end to some petty online bickering and adopt an important internet standard. That’s how long tec...
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/102926-need-to-resolve-a-technology-religious-war-meet-sam.html
My best friend in high school was a wonderful French horn player. He was such a good musician, in fact, that he was banned from playing his instrument. No, really. The top position in an American...
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/102899-why-new-technical-leaders-succeed-or-fail.html
“The CEO has approved our project. We have 20% time for the next two weeks to refactor the reporting system, and Sales agrees no reporting demos during that time.” Rami smiled as though I had...
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/102842-supported-stretches.html
"Poor Yorick" my ass. I got off easy.
Sometimes I think I am just the way dishes get transported up and down stairs-- like, having no legs, they invented me
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/96518-intolerable-weather.html
Sometimes I think I am just the way dishes get transported up and down stairs-- like, having no legs, they invented me
https://www.robertpeake.com/archives/96513-self-esteem-giants.html