Welcome to Software is Easy, People are Hard, a blog for engineering leads of all levels.
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Clumps of Stars: The Importance of Group Level Direction.
The sometimes hard-to-swallow truth is that, at scale, flat organizations don’t work. As a company grows they need to be chunked into smaller, more manageable pieces. Companies split up into domains, groups, tribes, coagulations, or what is defined in the most recent blog post or book that the operations lead…
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“Hybrid is Hard” – Survey Full Results.
After talking to multiple people I started to feel that there was a significant trend toward people feeling that Hybrid work, spending some time working from home, and sometime in the office, wasn’t really playing out to be the perfect post-COVID “new normal” scenario that people were anticipating. Research…
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“Hybrid is Hard” – Your Back To The Office Plan is Failing.
Most of us have received the email. The title reads “Back To The Office Policy” it starts with something like “We all believe that face-to-face collaboration is part of creating a vibrant, fun, and effective work policy.”.” The internal comms team knows this isn’t going to be 100% popular, so…
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“Hybrid is Hard” – The Myth of The Collaborative Workplace.
We’ve been sold the myth that hybrid work is the perfect mix between being productive and being focused in your curated, comfortable home office space. Then spending a day or two in the office being hyper-collaborative with your teammates. However, my recent survey shows that 60% of hybrid workers…
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CSS: Cascading Support Systems
What do Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk have in common? Experts have suggested that these three men show borderline signs of being psychopaths. But they’re not the “murdery” kind of Phycopath. The definition of psychopathic behavior doesn’t in fact, cover much about killing people.
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The CTO’s Golden Derrière: The misguided perception of rockstar tech leads.
Over the last couple of decades, the explosion of tech companies led to their leaders being idolized as people with superhuman capabilities; Gods of industry, savant business leaders with visionary missions to change the world. However, they’re simply not much better than you or me. People love to use…