Team Troubleshooting

Which organization should team X be part of?

3 months ago 1 min read Team dynamics

During my years as both VP of SaaS Operations and Engineering, I had the experience of going through different transformations at an organizational level. I've worked and moved from distributed agile

Letting a low performer go

3 months ago 2 min read Leadership Performance management

As managers, we'll have to let a team member go at some point in our careers. I have yet to read much about it in either books or blog posts, so

Team identities

3 months ago 1 min read

One observation I'd like to share about team dynamics is that many groups form their identities around team names, charters, or visions. Though this is helpful in terms of group formation,

How NOT to create a culture of continuous learning

3 months ago 1 min read Team dynamics Leadership

For the past few months, I've had the opportunity to observe an extensive set of teams with a very different way of working than many of the teams I've

The story of how we broke a team's health by raising the bar when doing a performance review

3 months ago 4 min read Leadership Team dynamics Communication

This is a case where we had a management failure, and even if I feel we did the right thing, we failed to do it gracefully, and it took us a long time