If you’re in the technology industry, the executives of your company have likely been inundated recently with advice on how to manage the current market turbulence. While the advice varies by giver, it usually includes some combination of: preserve
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The Challenges of Innovating From Home
My first experience leading teams working from home came over a decade ago at a cloud archiving startup in the suburbs of Boston. While I had managed geographically dispersed teams before, they were always centered around offices - e.g.
My Tips for Working from Home in a Pandemic
Our offices around the globe went to work from home March 11th, making today my 11th day in captivity… I mean operating remotely. The transition has gone surprisingly smoothly, with technology enabling me and my team to be very productive.
The Day the Markets Crashed
I was at Dell when the 2008 Great Recession started. I hadn’t thought much about the housing market in the years leading up to the crash, and certainly had never heard of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs). I did think
My 1st Lesson In Incremental Delivery
Early in my career I worked on a new service called Venues at an MIT Media Labs spinout called FireFly. The service was an early version of a social network like MySpace that was focused on engaging consumers in chat,
Have You Ever Sold a Story Point?
I despise story points. Not dislike: despise. I’ve tried to like them, almost always driven an internal evangelist who’s convinced a team cannot truly adopt agile without story points. I’ve used story point poker, fibonacci sequences, and