#Practices

Why delegation fails for many founders – and how to fix it. Learn practical tools like Delegation Poker, spot common traps, and start scaling with clarity and trust.

This article critiques traditional performance reviews and advocates for alternative approaches that enhance employee feedback and engagement. It discusses the negative impact of outdated review systems on motivation and performance, proposing continuous feedback mechanisms that prioritize timely communication. By addressing key organizational needs—such as effective feedback, fair salary decisions, and clear direction—the article offers strategies for fostering a more collaborative and transparent workplace culture, ultimately empowering individuals and teams for better organizational outcomes.

Performance reviews are widely accepted in software companies, yet they often foster unhealthy competition and overlook the importance of teamwork. By emphasizing individual achievements over collective success, these evaluations can undermine collaboration and lead to biased assessments. Exploring alternative approaches like continuous feedback and peer evaluations can help create a more inclusive and productive workplace culture.

BRYTER, a German LegalTech company, improved how they update their software by moving to continuous deployments. This change allowed them to make updates faster, improve their software quality, and give their teams more control and understanding of the process. As a result, they saw fewer problems and could fix issues quicker.

Teams are encouraged to experiment with new ways of working, reflecting on their processes and continuously adapting to ensure they are not merely 'doing agile' but truly being agile in their approach. Exploring the concept of daily standups, this article challenges their routine use in agile teams and urges teams to question their effectiveness. Highlighting various issues such as fostering individualism, leading to irrelevant information exchange, and potentially delaying the addressing of obstacles, it sheds light on the unexpected pitfalls of this common practice.

Discover why velocity tracking, a popular Agile practice, might be hindering your team's performance more than helping it. While it might seem beneficial at first, over-reliance on velocity can lead to burnout, overestimation of work, and neglect of long-term benefits. Learn about the pitfalls and start thinking critically about your Agile practices. Remember, it's not about knowing your speed — it's about moving in the right direction sustainably.

High-performing Organizations make sure that everybody has the information they need to do their job with alignment, autonomy and excellence. Default-to-open can help to ensure this.

The weekly kickoff is a fantastic way to start your week as a team together. For our team, this was probably the most important event of the week, and we loved it. It allowed us enough structure and flexibility to satisfy our needs and to set us up for a productive and successful week. In this article I describe the structure and elements of our weekly kickoff.

Keeping the balance between deep work and being available for other teams can be especially challenging for platform- and enabling-teams. In this article I share the mechanisms that the developer experience team at BRYTER used to sucessfully maintain this balance.

Deep work and team work are not mutual exclusive but deeply interconneted. Collaborating as a team is the purest and most efficient form of deep work and can help your team to achieve peak performance.