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What is Chunking?

The word "Safe" keeps appearing as I read about complex systems - system safety, safety actions, safety models, STAMP.

Many people are convinced they cannot learn, citing things like "I'm not gifted enough" or "That other person is naturally great at what they do".

Problem Statement Company had significant engineering capacity between client engagements but no way to convert that capability into new business opportunities.

Problem Statement Flagship engagement with 4 teams (32 engineers) in highly regulated banking environment had no delivery governance.

Problem Statement Recurring bugs were drowning engineering teams in reactive patch fixing.

Problem Statement A €3 million project ran 3+ months late due to scope creep, undefined design principles and no risk tracking, missing the initial deadline by over 90 days.

What is deliberate practice?

So far, we've covered what mastery looks like and why you might want to master something.

What are the benefits of mastery?

What does mastery look like?

What have you always wanted to do but didn't give yourself time for?

Slowness is a virtue Speed is important.

One of the greatest superpowers that a leader can unlock at any moment is to write stuff down.

Effective Marketing Here is a sales funnel: On the left, we see all the opportunities for potential new business.

Intro Reading through Make It Stick, I keep coming across misconceptions I have about effective learning.

This is a post from a larger series entitled A Path to Learning+dev Mastery.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy applies to almost every discipline you can think of.

This is a post from a larger series entitled A Path to Learning+dev Mastery.

This is a post from a larger series entitled A Path to Learning+dev Mastery.

This is a post from a larger series entitled A Path to Learning+dev Mastery.

This is a post from a larger series entitled A Path to Learning+dev Mastery.

What is learning+development?

Benefits of GenAI I've been using ChatGPT consistently for about 5 months now.

We hate them, but timelines are important Most things have timelines.

Communicate by Default A manager's default task is to communicate.

Most of the time, we focus on the biggest problems of the moment.

What is L&D Theatre?

What is an L&D vision?

Difficulties of retro participation The team retro is the sacred space where all team members bring improvement ideas to the table.

Given the success of my previous post on hackernews, here are 3 more onboarding antipatterns.

Effective Onboarding A good onboarding experience will get the new-joiner up and running quickly.

Using root cause analysis for people problems Let's say James (a manager) pulls me aside for a talk.

How to know you're not focusing Do you ask yourself any of these questions?

Get better results by focusing on what's working In his book, Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck describes how Extreme Programming was conceived: "My goal in laying out the project style was to take everything I knew to be valuable about software en…

I've taken this workshop format from the videos on the HBS Case Method.

Posting a Question on Hackernews I posted a question to the hackernews community asking them "Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?".

Remote vs.

This template is inspired by a number of software coaches including Woody Zuill, Kevin Meadows and Llewellyn Falco.

Why use different retro questions?

What are the rules of chess?

I wrote previously about lessons I wish I knew when onboarding to a new project.

What is a culture?

What is a Learning Cluster?

This is a series of exercises in preparation for scrum.org's PSM certifications.

This is a series of exercises in preparation for scrum.org's PSM certifications.

What is Continuous Improvement?

Retrospectives are the team’s most valuable meeting.

Solving performance issues is a tricky business.