We've all experienced the frustration of our smartphones crashing or freezing at the worst possible moment. So how is it that NASA can land a rover on Mars, millions of miles away, with software that works flawlessly? The answer lies in a combination...
Organizational debt is a sibling of technical debt. While technical debt is unhealthy and generally a well-understood problem, organizational debt can be killer and often treated as an afterthought. The term "organizational debt" was coined by Steve Blank, defined as the accumulation of...
When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. On a positive note, both...
The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced. Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Moreover, there is hardly any strong scientific evidence suggesting that there is a...
Implementing agile which works and delivers can be a very challenging task, especially in corporate and enterprise environment. According to 10th State of Agile Survey, two of the top five causes of failure were related to company culture – company philosophy or culture at odds with...
