Category: Organization

Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It

The Law that Almost Wasn’tConway’s law had a rather precarious beginning. Harvard Business Review rejected Conway’s thesis, buried as it was in the 43d paragraph of a 45-paragraph…

xz Marty Abbott

December 14, 2017 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development

In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses enroute to optimal productivity.…

xz Bill Armelin

November 8, 2017 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

What Google Got Right and Wrong with Firing James Damore

We have a saying in AKF Partners that “an incident is a terrible thing to waste”. When things go poorly in a firm, stakeholders (shareholders, partners, employees) pay a price.…

xz Marty Abbott

August 9, 2017 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Tech

We all suffer from various cognitive biases, those mental filters or lenses that alter or warp the reality around us. With the election of 2016, one particular bias has gained…

xz Dave Swenson

August 1, 2017 · 4 min read

Leadership Organization

Where have all the Women gone?

We hear every day that more and more jobs are disappearing, yet the technology job sector cannot keep up with the unprecedented demand. So why are women falling behind in this…

xz AKF

July 19, 2017 · 4 min read

Organization Process

Engineering Metrics

A topic that often results in great debate is “how to measure engineers?” I’m a pretty data driven guy so I’m a fan of metrics as long as they are 1) measured correctly…

xz AKF

April 3, 2017 · 3 min read

Organization Process

PDLC or SDLC

As a frequent technology writer I often find myself referring to the method or process that teams use to produce software. The two terms that are usually given for this are software…

xz AKF

April 3, 2017 · 2 min read

Category: Organization

Conway’s Law – The Rest of the Story.. and How To Fix It

Tuckman’s Stages and Agile Development

What Google Got Right and Wrong with Firing James Damore

The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Tech

Where have all the Women gone?

Engineering Metrics

PDLC or SDLC

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