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Interviewing stakeholders provides helpful information about their context, allows us to identify business goals they are concerned with, and increases their support.

What fits when? A lot of methods, approaches are out there to use in your product/Service, yet finding the right approach can be a bit challenging. Here are…

With ever-increasing demands at work, being able to get things done can be a key driver of success. But, the irony is that it can also deter success, because a focus on tasks often comes at the expense of a focus on people. Things like building relationships, inspiring a team, developing others, and showing empathy can fall by the wayside. If you sense that you may be overly task-focused, talk to your team about what you can do to focus more meaningfully on the people on your team. Seek out the advice of others who are good at balancing task- and people-focus to gain some insight into how they do it. Building greater self-awareness in the moment provides an opportunity to pause and choose a different approach. This might mean choosing not to send a slew of emails about your big project over the weekend, pausing to acknowledge a colleague’s effort, or taking the time to teach a team member something new. To be sure, task-focus and achieving results are vital for any leader, team, or organization to succeed, but without a sufficient balance with people-focus, success will be limited at every level.

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A fascinating, and telling, chart of how we spend our time as we age. https://bit.ly/3FuaoLV | 233 comments on LinkedIn

There’s a high likelihood of a global recession. There’s an increased cost of capital (i.e., it costs more to borrow money) which means…

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I was reading up on Steve Jobs’ return to Apple in 1997. They fired 4100 people— 31% of their workforce. They were losing $600M a quarter at the time, and… | 497 comments on LinkedIn

Catastrophizing is a common reaction to uncertain situations where we tend to overestimate the likelihood or consequences of our worst fears. | 14 comments on LinkedIn

If folks at Stripe or Twitter are finding their feet all of a sudden & want to hang out in Dogpatch for free next week just connect with me. Loads of amazing… | 110 comments on LinkedIn

The gravitational pull of the moon. Art by: Vinny Ravuri, https://lnkd.in/eWUWMjUt Source: https://bit.ly/3TC9wJh | 914 comments on LinkedIn

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Rethinking what’s important in the #lending process The most important steps are to validate and verify income followed by assessing overall…

Many standard interview processes rely on outdated behavioral questions like “What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?” to evaluate prospective hires. But more often than not, these types of questions fail to reveal useful information about a candidate’s competencies. A better approach is to immerse job candidates in unconventional scenarios to gather the most useful insights about their critical-thinking abilities, tech savviness, and interpersonal skills. For example, if you want to test their ability to prepare, let them know the questions you’ll ask beforehand. If you want to test their technical skills, give them a problem to solve in real-time. And if you want to see if they’ll be a good cultural fit, have them play an interactive game with your employees.

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We know that men and women are often described differently in performance evaluations, and now we have more information on exactly what some of those differences are. Researchers analyzed a large-scale military dataset (over 4,000 participants and 81,000 evaluations) to examine objective and subjective performance measures. They found no gender differences in objective measures (e.g., grades, fitness scores, class standing), but the subjective evaluations were very different. Negative words (like selfish, passive, and scattered) were much more frequently applied to women. The specific words used to describe men and women also differed. The most commonly used positive term to describe men was analytical, while for women it was compassionate. The most commonly used negative term to describe men was arrogant, while for women, it was inept — even though men’s and women’s performances were objectively the same.

Managers and employees disagree on how tough their firm is on people who #WFH on "in office" days. Employees say often nothing happens, while managers say… | 18 comments on LinkedIn

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FinTech driven credit #FinTech share of the personal loan market has grown from 11% in 2014 to 34% in 2022 https://bit.ly/3MkUzIV via @CreditSuisse #lending…

What do hostage negotiators, criminal interrogators, and great leaders have in common? They understand the importance of building strong emotional connections… | 87 comments on LinkedIn

Hugely exciting graph… until you look at the y-axis. Wind energy is progressing at great pace… but still from far too small a base. Interestingly, last year… | 82 comments on LinkedIn

The next opportunity to join my course "Agile Culture" is now! Sign up for the 2nd of December. The course is a full day (remote) where we explore how to…

Layoffs at Twitter. Elon Musk’s reign begins.  Indian employees of Twitter also deeply impacted. If avoiding a layoff was not a viable option, how it got… | 823 comments on LinkedIn

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There are five service models when it comes to cloud. Going from left to right, clients gradually give up control over their environments to cloud providers.…

Too many teams are spinning in circles (or sprints). It often isn’t their fault, but still…the level of reactivity is so draining...

Bias for Action, a principle introduced by Jeff Bezos, is about action and thinking quickly. Jeff Bezos believes that the way to discover innovative opportunities for customers is by rapidly trying out new ideas. The same goes with finding what might be broken or amiss through rapid experimentation and learning from the results.

𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 The best free and paid software architecture diagramming and design tools. 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀:… | 37 comments on LinkedIn

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻? Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is the approach to software development that enables us to translate complex… | 48 comments on LinkedIn

How to Onboard Yourself as an Engineering Manager at a New Job in 3 Weeks? I read a lot about Engineering Management. Of all writers I found this year, David… | 31 comments on LinkedIn

BetaCodex Network and Value Creation Structure. Have you ever heard about it? Are you still struggling with a Functional Structure, working on isolated…

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” —Gustavo Petro (📸 by Emil Maj Christensen) | 2,984 comments on LinkedIn

Systems are constrained to follow the communication patterns of their designers.

How has Tesla generated unparalleled operating leverage? I studied the financial statements so you don’t have to. 1. Funding R&D 2. Increasing reliability… | 52 comments on LinkedIn

User Needs Mapping refers to the first four steps of the Wardley Mapping process that can provide significant value when helping understand users/customers, their needs and the dependencies required to deliver those needs within an organization. By mapping out the dependency tree/value chain we can

Until Product Owners become real team members, they will never be able to thrive. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

John Drogosz pitches the advantages of value stream mapping for cross-functional teams to improve their way of working: "Value Stream Mapping in Product…

Almost a third of meetings are NOT necessary. The time that people sit in meetings nowadays is three times higher than it used to be at the start of 2020… | 16 comments on LinkedIn

𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟰 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 Just like the architecture of a building, software architecture describes the design and collection of… | 76 comments on LinkedIn

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What is GraphQL? Is it a replacement for the REST API? The diagram below shows the quick comparison between REST and GraphQL. 🔹GraphQL is a query language… | 243 comments on LinkedIn

The Agile Manifesto was written by 17 software developers back in 2001, but now, it seems that agile has become more about making life more difficult for… | 34 comments on LinkedIn

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A critique of Clean Architecture and TDD. What is a "critique"? - A critique does NOT mean saying something is bad (or good) - Critiquing means analyzing… | 58 comments on LinkedIn

How to write architecture tests in 10 minutes 🗺 Let me show you! I discussed one of my favorite architectures in a previous video. Of course, I'm talking… | 23 comments on LinkedIn

Helping others is great, but it doesn't hold a candle to owning things. I walk through ownership vs helping, and why your kids are bad at doing the dishes.

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I spent 3 days optimizing a poorly performing API endpoint. From 𝟲𝘀 ➡➡➡ 𝟬.𝟰𝘀 Here's what I learned: - Focus on bottlenecks first (biggest payoff) -… | 211 comments on LinkedIn

If you're curious about visualizing business and technology evolution and your own capabilities in order to make better strategic choices ... ... I have… | 17 comments on LinkedIn

In the previous chapter about the growth phase of the product lifecycle, I described a set of 4 tools that will be of great support for…

Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels says, “Everything fails, all the time”. This means we should design with failure in mind and assume that something unpredictable could happen. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is designed to help you prepare your workload for failure. It describes key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads […]

Knowledge vs. Experience: collecting the dots vs. connecting them. Credit: animated by Visualize Value In terms of definitions: - Knowledge can be thought of… | 48 comments on LinkedIn

You can find numerous articles out there that will rattle off a list of “essential e-commerce metrics” however the problem with these are…

Software architecture is often a misunderstood idea. Unlike traditional architecture, where the design is separated from construction, in software how something is built influences what is built, and vice versa. Software architecture is about decisions, not structure. Architecting is a skill, and architect should not be a role.

"John, can you share that North Star template?" Sure! - 17 Miro frames/activities - 17 short Loom videos on how to use each activity - A bunch of other… | 120 comments on LinkedIn

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We can debate the number of strategies that fall short of expectations or fail outright each year, and still, the facts are, that most organizations aren't… | 66 comments on LinkedIn