I’ve known about this for a couple months, but it’s still pretty awesome now that it is happening. As of March 31, SEP now has an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. This means that over the next 15+ years, ownership of the company will slowly transition to the employees. We will not buy the stock … […]
Deliberate Practice in Software
Deliberate Practice and Software Craftsmanship: Lessons from Mary Poppendieck at Agile 2009 Session: Mary Poppendieck at Agile 2009 Mary Poppendieck is well known as a lean software engineering leader, but in this session, she explored the idea of deliberate practice in our field. She referenced studies by Anders Ericsson about what it takes to be […]
Optimizing Team Liquidity: Lessons from Agile 2009
Optimizing Team Liquidity: Lessons from Agile 2009 Session: Open Jam with David Anderson at Agile 2009 The Concept: Liquidity in Software Teams In finance, liquidity is the ability to easily convert one asset into another. David Anderson applies this concept to software organizations, defining liquidity as how flexibly we can deploy our team’s skills across […]
Emergent Interview Design
Hiring Our First External Project Manager in 15 Years: Lessons Learned I’m heavily involved in recruiting here at SEP. We recently did something that we haven’t done in at least 15 years: hired an experienced project manager. In our history, we’ve always, always, always grown our own—it’s too critical of a position to put in […]
New Approaches to Risk Management
— I was lucky enough to attend the 2009 Agile conference. This post is one in a series of session reports from it. Presenter: David Anderson David framed this session with the idea that much of the stated value of Agile is in managing risk. Wanting to dig deeper, he tried to find a good […]
