In the last 10+ years I’ve studied teamwork by talking to a lot of teams in different organizations. Besides that, I’ve read a lot of books on this topic to compare my findings with those from others. Not surprisingly I found a lot of overlap in some of those books. Here are my top 5Continue reading “5 Great Books For Better Teamwork”
Category Archives: Culture Code
Empowering Developers – The Next Generation Coder
I’m going to a lot of software development conferences and working in some program committees trying to select sessions about the hottest new trends. If you do this for a few years you see hypes come & go like SOA, ESB, MapReduce, BPM and so on. But once in a while there is a revolutionContinue reading “Empowering Developers – The Next Generation Coder”
Team Building – Winning & Losing As A Team
This part of the Summer of Culture blog series There have been written a lot of books about team building and the psychology behind this. There are a lot of courses, seminars, talks about this complex topic and I don’t think this post can explain all of it. I just want to share some tips forContinue reading “Team Building – Winning & Losing As A Team”
Have a DOmocracy
This is part of the Summer Of Culture blog series. Coordinating work across teams is a real big challenge. Each product and organization is different and so have different needs in how they scale. I’ve seen a lot of companies struggle with scaling teams and being agile. Here are some problems when more than oneContinue reading “Have a DOmocracy”
Summer of Culture – The Beginning
This is the first part of a blog post series about company culture. I’m planning to write 5 posts in the upcoming 2 months about certain aspects of creating a great culture. What is company culture? I guess this is the hardest thing to explain, so why not ask Wikipedia about it? “Culture includes theContinue reading “Summer of Culture – The Beginning”
Sven Peters 