leadership
It sounds obvious, but as a leader, it's critical to manage a team based on the team's current maturity level. For example, if you have a high-maturity, high-performing team stacked with A+ players who know how to do their roles well, are excellent at the needed
lessons-learned
If you're ever in an environment as a leader where things are crazy-chaotic, and it feels like all you do is play whack-a-mole, constantly putting out fires (issues) reactively and you're not advancing any of your priorities, you need to do something that will feel counter-intuitive.
leadership
It's easy to undervalue leadership, and think that just being good at the "hard skills" of your career and telling your direct reports specifically what you want them to do will be sufficient, but as team's and organizations grow, that doesn't scale.
leadership
I'm enjoying the audiobook Trillion Dollar Coach about Bill Campbell, a football coach who pivoted mid-career into a business executive in Silicon Valley, as an executive at Apple, a CEO of Intuit, and an executive coach to Steve Jobs and other high profile leaders. One of the great
CIO
I recently went to the 2019 Gartner Security and Risk Summit in National Harbor (outside of DC). This was my second Gartner conference, and so far they're 2 for 2 at delivering high-quality, impactful, intense 5 day conferences. The event was jam-packed with great sessions, roundtables, workshops, and
agile
At the recent 2019 Capability Counts conference, hosted by the CMMI Institute, I presented a session related to Enforcing Quality with DevOps Pipeline gates, where I provided an introduction to the concepts and technologies of DevOps, and how to use the concepts of Continuous Quality to improve software quality earlier
miscellaneous
I've been reflecting recently on my father's life and what he taught me. My father was great (though certainly not perfect), and I keep appreciating more and more how different he was from the 'average father' in many ways. Many of these storied reminded
leadership
A dedicated employee who will work harder, with a greater sense of urgency (and maybe some extra hours when needed) is great. But what's much more valuable than someone with that work ethic, is someone who can see when working harder isn't going to work, and
lessons-learned
There should be a word for people who have the annoying tendency to point at problems and talk about them, instead of trying to actually improve the situation (or maybe there is, and I just don't know it). I don't know if you've been
miscellaneous
There's a fundamental pyschology concept called "Bystander Effect", where a group of people are less likely to help someone in need than when a single person is present. Everyone in the group thinks someone else will/should help the victim, instead of them. Think about this
SAFe
If you're a small business, the world of cyber security can be very overwhelming and intimidating. There are infinite articles you can read about, a long list of cyber security maturity frameworks and concepts you could try to learn, and an overwhelming feeling that you can't
Uncategorized
Scott Adams, the creator Dilbert, has written about how systems are much more valuable than goals. This concept is incredibly powerful, and there are great, large, complex frameworks for defining and enhancing systems that people and organizations use and manage. Frameworks like ITIL and CMMI do a great job of