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Teams Without Managers

Teams Without Managers

A team without managers sounds like a ridiculous idea, but it's actually worth trying out just to see how much of management is 'real' and how much is just fear of shadows. In this post, Swanand Pagnis, CTO of co-learn, explores what it might take to get there.

Managing Without Managers

Managing Without Managers

Anarchy - I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Hammer Time!

Hammer Time!

The Quality Muscle

The Quality Muscle

Use it or lose it Who is responsible for the quality of the output of your engineering org? If you answered "QA" then you're either a QA or you really need to read the rest of this article. Quality, like reliability, is such a cross-cutting concern

Narratives - Part 1

Narratives - Part 1

Stories are extremely influential, they are innate to humans and humans derive their model of the world from stories. And this is true of orgs as well — your organisation is telling itself stories in order to make sense of itself.

The Power of Stories

The Power of Stories

The Ladder of Power

The Ladder of Power

This is going to be a short post because the concept is quite simple, and yet quite powerful. When it comes to Politics, simple paying attention to the subtle forces that shape our world can be a game changer If you haven’t already, please read my post on managing