Leadership

FFS I am not a resource

This is a paraphrasing of a talk I gave at FFS Conf Down Under in February 2019.


This is about language; and when you talk about language, it’s …

A one day offsite for …

This week I held an offsite for my engineering leadership team. My two aims were to do some formation activities as we have a few new faces in the …

Measuring happiness

As sometimes happens, I wanted to answer a question on Twitter but couldn’t do it justice in 140 characters. The question was this:

@andykelk …

Building a learning …

This is a paraphrasing of a talk given at the 2015 CTO Summits in Melbourne and Sydney.


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Think about the last day you spent at work. What did you …

Date for your Diary: CTO …

Coming up soon are this year’s Sydney and Melbourne CTO Summits presented by Yow and Wheelhouse. My topic is on “Building a learning …

Get rid of all the …

This is a paraphrasing of my talk from Ignite Sydney. The five minute format means this is necessarily lacking in detail!


Are you …

Book Review: Reinventing …

I’ve recently finished reading " Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux. I was inspired to read it after attending a talk by …

Management and leadership …

I often find myself talking to experienced and new managers about things I’ve read or heard. Of course I can never remember everything so this …

Revitalising the weekly …

Monday, 9am: the first participants drift into the room clasping their smart devices and coffees.

9:05am: The meeting gets going with the weekly …