The Ideal Team Player - HHS vs. DAC
2023-02-10 Management Books Culture Remote Thoughts
Patrick Lencioni (obviously) wrote The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In that book we learn that the five dysfunctions you need to avoid are … ... Read More
Happy new year - I am tooting now ...
2023-01-01 Personal Culture Nerdy Politics Privacy TEDN Thoughts Tips & Tricks
Happy new year to ya all!!! What a year it has been. Some of the highlights are … In February I spend a week with the European Community ... Read More
Emacs Pair Programming - Innovation-Week Q2/2022
2022-05-01 Software-Craftmanship Community Culture Emacs Innovation Lisp Nerdy Remote Tips & Tricks
We (at Community) just had another Innovation-Week. I was actually working on generating pact-files from frontend code and then generating openapi ... Read More
What is better than Remote-First 1.0? Remote-First 2.0!
2021-07-04 Management Culture Remote Thoughts
Two weeks ago I got my second jab. I am fully vaccinated now. I am now in Germany to see my parents for the first time in 12 month. Yes: It is finally ... Read More
Distances - Know them. Manage them.
2021-06-01 Management Culture Remote Thoughts
Building and managing remote-first organizations means that you also need to understand (and manage) distances! To develop your ability to understand ... Read More
The first Summit/Hack-a-thon @ Community
2021-02-12 Management Community Culture Remote
As people know … I am big fan of building and maintain this balance between Product and Engineering where … Product makes sure we build ... Read More
What's a Staff Director?
2020-08-31 Management Thoughts Culture
Community is growing fast. More business. More customers. More people. More money. More (necessary) complexity (software and people). The demand for ... Read More
The TEDN Van
2020-04-14 Personal TEDN Culture
Here we go again: There is good news and bad news!!! The good news is that the TEDN Mobile Office project is making good progress! By now we (means ... Read More
Roland ... what's in a name
2020-04-13 Personal Culture Thoughts
Updated: On Oct., 11th, 2020 Updated: On Apr., 12th, 2020 Updated: On Oct., 29th, 2016 A couple of years ago a colleague of mine pointed me to the new ... Read More
Discussing Remote ... the book!!!
2020-04-07 Software-Engineering Management TEDN Remote Culture Books
These days people look for advice and insight into how to build and run a remote-first engineering organization. And want/need to learn fast!!! One ... Read More