Tag: collaboration

All the articles with the tag "collaboration".

• The Princess and the Pea

  Published:Nov 8, 2019

  |3 min read

  The Princess and the Pea fairy tale perfectly captures a problem I see in software teams. When someone on your team is overly sensitive to small issues, it can create tension. How to handle it constructively.

• Don't Bake a Cake

  Published:Mar 16, 2019

  |5 min read

  Don't bake a cake became my shorthand for a common problem in software teams. What I learned about communicating status updates effectively and why transparency, even when things go wrong, builds trust.

• Refactoring Analogies

  Published:Sep 12, 2016

  |7 min read

  Refactoring can be hard to explain to stakeholders who don't code. Using analogies from home improvement and organization, I share how I communicate the value of refactoring to non-technical audiences.