The Keys that Align
Every software team is working to establish an agile release cadence. What are some of the unintended consequences of success?
The Loop that Drives
Working intentionally in a loop provides a convenient reminder to include continuous improvement activities. Close significant loops with meaningful retrospectives.
The Principles that Guide
The diversity of the team engaged in solving a problem is directly proportional to the innovation that team will produce. Learn how this is just one of the principles that guide Surround Sight’s work.
In this article I discuss the Design Thinking principles of
A focus on user outcomes
Restless reinvention
Diverse Empowered Teams
and share some insights about how these principles have impacted the work that I do and how they guide me in business.
Design Thinking and DevOps
In 2020 IBM posted a job that required 12 years of experience in Kubernetes. That’s a bit of a red flag. I would consider the job title of “DevOps Engineer” to be just as big a red flag. Learn why DevOps is not a job title, and how Design Thinking can help DevOps teams.
Design Thinking
As engineers it’s easy for us to get caught up in the latest tech and forget that humans are why we do what we do. Design Thinking gives us powerful design tools, founded in empathy, focused on meaningful outcomes for our users. In this article I discuss Design Thinking Workshops, and some of the more subtle human-centered benefits of the methodology.
Introducing Surround Sight Consulting
I’m starting Surround Sight Consulting to bring Design Thinking techniques and Microservice Architecture technologies into small to medium sized software engineering shops. These two advances can provide real business advantages that drive significant growth to the bottom line.