Introducing Protect the Doers
Most people become managers by accident. They were good at their job. Someone noticed. A promotion followed. Overnight, producing value was replaced by being responsible …
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How-to-Build-a-Team
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FinOps wants to become a discipline, but most teams are still a heroic side quest
Cloud cost management won’t scale as a heroic side-quest run by one FinOps practitioner. Borrow proven management systems, give FinOps a mandate, and add programme …
Learning in public - Tools for teams
Learning in public
How build a team (ebook)
Learning in public
Close your open door policy and do this instead
The video
Creating an asynchronous team
Many actions in a team require being together at the same time in the same place (i.e. synchronous). Meetings, conf call, presentations and many more are examples of …
Ask your team to be part of the solution, not of the problem
With new hires, I often end up saying “Be part of the solution, not of the problem”. This one-liner is an invitation to use your brain, have an opinion and bring a …
How to remember names
I'm still bad at it, working on it
Top tip for hiring
simple, yet often ignored
A short definition of a good team
A great team is aligned around a single goal, but there must enough difference of opinions that conflict will happen.