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DIY leadership development program for people who didn’t get nominated

I’ve always thought it would be more useful to have everyone participate in leadership development programs rather than just the limited…

May 1

Leaders leaving due to retirement and churn. Where do the backfill leaders come from? Leadership development!

May 1

DIY leadership development: DIY capstone project(s)

Why?

Apr 30

High impact, Low visibility: Improve visibility first; Low impact, Low visibility: “Snacking”; High impact, High visibility: Target for capstone projects; Low impact, High visibility: “Preening”

Apr 30

DIY leadership development: Stay connected with the broader industry.

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash

Apr 24

DIY leadership development: Stay connected with the broader industry.

Apr 24

DIY leadership development: Develop relationships across the organisation.

AKA develop your internal reputation and network.

Apr 13

Getting things done = Team capability + Ability to influence stakeholders + Ability to influence teams you depend on. Relationships affect the ability to influence.

Apr 13

Thoughts from Agile India 2025 — the finale

I recently presented at and attended Agile India 2025, the last one.

Mar 29

Mar 29

DIY leadership development: Learn how the business works

Understand how the business works in terms of business model, key products, and key business processes.

Mar 18

DIY leadership development: Learn how the business works

Mar 18

Platform migration size vs Predictability of migration effort vs Platform customer satisfaction

The larger the platform migration, the more predictable it needs to be to maintain customer satisfaction. Small migrations are both…

Mar 16

2x2 matrix of size of platform migration vs predictability of migration effort required. Large migrations that are less predictable lead to low platform customer satisfaction. Large migrations that are more predictable lead to better platform customer satisfaction. Small migrations are inherently more predictable and lead to better platform customer satisfaction.

Mar 16

Bad idea: “Artificial Intelligence” automatically improves productivity.

AI improves productivity by enabling automation of what could not be previously automated.

Feb 7

Productivity = Value of Impact / Cost of Effort. Automation reduces cost of effort. AI (presumably) enables automation of more creative tasks.

Feb 7

Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity.

As I’ve said previously, productivity is the ratio of the value of Impact to the cost of Effort.

Jan 25

3 product teams have a capability called “Foo” and a Platform Team has a capability called “Shared Foo”. Arrows pointing from product teams to platform team to consolidate costs. Another product team saying “We could use a Foo…” and an arrow pointing from platform team to product team to reuse capabilities.

Jan 25

Bad idea: Developer experience is equivalent to productivity

The SPACE paper, referencing an earlier Microsoft paper, argues for the importance of considering perceived productivity. This is…

Jan 9

“Productivity numbers are up! “I hate my life” scores are also up but I’m sure that’s fine…”

Jan 9

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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