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DIY leadership development: Develop leadership skills

Learn the skills to be a competent leader.

Sep 14

Mapping of leadership skill groups across The Art of Action, Strength Finder 2.0, and For Your Improvement. Directing maps to Strategic Thinking maps to Thought. Leading maps to Influencing and Relationship Building maps to People and Self. Managing maps to Executing maps to Results.

Sep 14

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Company songs, generative AI, and product life cycles

A while ago, I was at the Grainger office in Jacksonville, and I noticed a wall showing a timeline of key historical events at Grainger. I…

Aug 24

Company songs, generative AI, and product life cycles

Aug 24

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DIY leadership development: Role model company values

Become a role model for the desired values of the company.

Jul 14

Company values: X, Y, Z. Left branch: leaders are inconsistent with values, people are annoyed with hypocrisy, people are disengaged. Right branch: leaders are consistent with values, people believe values are real, people are engaged.

Jul 14

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DIY leadership development: Build self-awareness

Γνῶθι σεαυτόν

Jun 23

Cause effect diagram: build self-awareness to understand your motivations and understand your preferred working styles; understand your motivations, understand your preferred working styles and communicate your preferred working styles to improve your interactions with others.

Jun 23

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Thoughts on value stream mapping in IT and software development

Migrated from my old blog (2011).

Apr 29

Thoughts on value stream mapping in IT and software development

Apr 29

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How might we best use in-person office time?

Thinking about the hybrid context. If you treat in-person office time as a valuable, scarce resource, what’s the best use of that time?

Apr 28

Chart answering the question “How might we best use in-person office time?”

Apr 28

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Some corrections about the early days of Continuous Integration

I recently read an article by Greg Foster on the Graphite blog: From the 80’s to 2024 — how CI tests were invented and optimized…

Apr 13

Apr 13

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Beyond “separating deployment from release”

Technical deployment. Detect any obvious technical problems.

Apr 11

Beyond “separating deployment from release”

Apr 11

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“What do we protect?” over “What do we cut?”

Reducing the number of “priorities” that an organization is working on is often the correct thing to do, but it’s difficult because it…

Apr 5

A set of prioritised efforts. “What do we cut?” focuses loss aversion on the lower priority items. “What do we protect?” focuses loss aversion on the higher priority items.

Apr 5

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Never allow a good sense of urgency go to waste.

“In successful change efforts, the first step is making sure sufficient people act with sufficient urgency — with on-your-toes behavior…

Apr 3

Never allow a good sense of urgency go to waste.

Apr 3

Jason Yip

Jason Yip

Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl

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