In the first part of this three-part blog post series, our Senior Engineer Duncan covers the most important factors pushing technology skills enablement to the top of many organisations’ lists of priorities.
Embedded capabilities
Stop buying specialists and start delivering outcomes
Rich discusses the problems that can arise when companies hire specialists and how to refocus a team to start delivering outcomes. Multidisciplinary teams allow you to focus on what outcomes you’re delivering and enable the team to share the responsibility of all aspects of delivery.
Investing in digital skills for the future
Many organisations have fallen behind in the digital race. They’ve been unable to keep up with the pace of change and therefore need to buy a digital transformation to catch up. Couldn’t this whole transformation business have been avoided?
Digital skills shortage: what can we do?
The evidence is all around us: there is a shortage of digital skills. You only need to look at the ever inflating tech salaries and the array of benefits companies offer employees. Such offers are made in an attempt to get access to the limited supply of tech talent available in the market. We’ve got a problem and it’s only going to increase unless we do something about it.
Pair programming remotely: tools and tips that make it better
Pairing is a great way to boost productivity and help crack a particularly complex problem.
11 ways to see if your team is high performing: A Litmus test for your team
How do you know if your team is high performing? In this post, Andreas describes a series of indicators that you can use to see if a team that you manage, or are part of, are ‘high performing’, the reasons we encourage particular team behaviours, and what we can do to move a team towards becoming ‘high performing’.
Learning to learn: Introducing the four stages of learning
Few skills have the power to hold such sway over the course of our lives as learning, but for such a vital skill, the steps we go through on the learning journey are not always greatly understood.
Becoming a better engineer by becoming a better mentor
Some dos and don’ts for supporting and coaching less experienced engineers
How deep is your work?
Coined by Cal Newport in 2012 on his Study Hacks blog, deep work is the ability to reach a state of increased productivity when performing cognitively taxing tasks by minimising or ignoring external interferences. Making deep work the centrepoint of your knowledge work schedule generates three key benefits:
Game, skill set, match – How to develop your team using LearnTech
2017 was a big year for us with a number of successful projects under our belt including writing our second book Building High Performance Agile Teams, adding more great people to our team and launching our new Made Tech Academy initiative.
