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Why Should your Manager Pay for Coaching
Many managers and senior technical leaders want coaching. They’re just afraid they can’t get it. It seems like a luxury and an...
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Ashley Graham
May 4, 202218 min read
Somehow [We] Manage: Episode 1 - Not My Job
Subscribe to our podcast wherever you listen--on YouTube, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or RSS! Ashley Graham...
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John Graham
May 3, 20226 min read
Is Remote Work Less Innovative?
CNN recently ran an article saying that remote working tools like Zoom “crush the creative process.” Indeed, it quotes a researcher who...
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John Graham
Apr 29, 202221 min read
Software Engineering for Data Scientists: Journaling
Last week, we talked about the "Drafting" technique. Using a drafted essay or paper as an example, we talked about tools and techniques...
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John Graham
Apr 21, 202217 min read
Software Engineering for Data Scientists: The Drafting Technique
For years, I’ve been working on quantitative finance as a side project. I’ve often used it as a testbed for software engineering...
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John Graham
Apr 16, 202219 min read
How to Build a Learning Organization: Badges and Guilds
Hold Up. What problem are we trying to solve here? We’ve just gotten through a lot. In step 1, we talked about introducing training to...
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John Graham
Apr 7, 202210 min read
How to Build a Learning Organization: Step 5 - Thought Leadership
Where are We In the last post, we used the skill-will matrix (the Situational Leadership Model) and the Dreyfus Model of Skill...
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John Graham
Mar 31, 202214 min read
How to Build a Learning Organization: Step 4 - Delegating
Where Are We We're talking about a learning organization and how to build one. Specifically, we're talking about a teaching organization...
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John Graham
Mar 23, 20229 min read
Why do Bad Managers Prefer Waterfall Development?
If you're middle or late in your career, you've noticed a pattern. The majority of software shops seem to struggle with two things: Bad...
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John Graham
Mar 22, 202213 min read
How to Build a Learning Organization: Step 3 - Coaching
In our prior posts, we talked about the importance of training and mentoring. These activities are part of how to share what your...
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John Graham
Mar 9, 20228 min read
How To Build A Learning Organization: Step 2 - Mentoring
Last week, I talked about the first step toward building a learning organization, what a Learning Organization is, and why you'd want...
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John Graham
Mar 2, 202210 min read
How to Build a Learning Organization: Step 1 - Training
One of the biggest jumps you will need to make to take a small team to medium size and above is to formalize how you grow your team...
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Ashley Graham
Feb 25, 20222 min read
The Big Quit: Managing in the Great Resignation
Does this sound familiar? You just got out of another meeting with the executives. The team that reports to you asked you to get...
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John Graham
Feb 23, 20228 min read
Basic Agile: OODA Loops
The Take-Away What I hope you'll learn from this post: What problems agile process is intended to solve The one agile tactic to introduce...
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John Graham
Feb 16, 20227 min read
What is Agile Leadership?
The Best Leadership, Obviously If you've taken our "Agile: Deconstructed" training, you know that "agile" now isn't new - it has a long...
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John Graham
Feb 9, 202211 min read
The First Rule of Scaling Agile: Don't.
At least not in the ways being sold right now. Takeaways In this post, I'll work to convince you of the following: Waterfall and...
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John Graham
Feb 4, 20229 min read
Perfectionism in the Workplace: The Thunderdome Effect
Running this site is hard work. I'm trying to put together a SWOT for Guildmaster, think of our strategy (inbound content marketing seems...
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John Graham
Feb 1, 20224 min read
Amazon Culture, No Good? Time to Cut The FAANGS
Here are some questions to stop asking: “How can we make our process like FAANG companies?” “How can we make our culture better, like...
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