Leadership

TPM Journey at Github blog — October 20, 2024 — Slides and recording of my presentation about how technical program management (TPM) came about at GitHub. All in context of Tuckman’s model of group development.

Operating Principles a.k.a. How We Work blog — June 15, 2021 — This is a lightly obfuscated version of something I wrote for the technical team at Woolpert Cloud Solutions. It reflects the values I promote for the team and my ethos around enabling people to make …

Leadership memo and role definitions til — April 4, 2021 — PM and Eng leadership

Transforming the Team on Your Practical Cloud Journey blog — March 24, 2021 — Reposting a blog I wrote for Woolpert about digital transformation and the necessary culture, learning, and mindset for a successful and practical cloud journey.

TIL Cloud migration and terraform til — March 16, 2021 — From GCP to Terraform

OSS Licenses and Richard Feynmann til — March 1, 2021

A Practical Cloud Journey blog — January 31, 2021 — Re-posting the kickoff to Woolpert’s 2021 Practical Cloud Journey series. It’s all about customer value, not getting ahead of yourself (or your competence), and the importance of context.

Reposting Woolpert Cloud strategy blog blog — February 10, 2020 — Reposting a blog I wrote for Woolpert on how to proceed with a cloud strategy. I focus mostly on the Decide phase, since that’s most interesting to me personally, and I think it’s also the …

Core Skills ≥ Technical Skills blog — January 29, 2019 — Re-posting a popular article of mine from LinkedIn, I muse over the relative benefits of technical skills over core skills in hiring.