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Want to hire for more diversity? Then throw away your culture fit requirement So you want to start having more Diversity in your team and organizations. How do you do that? Well, you can start by throwing away your culture fit requirements and questions when interviewing candidates for your teams. ...

My Not So Normal Career Journey in Tech I recently gave a talk at the eXperience Agile conference held in Portugal last week. I was one of the virtual speakers, under the theme, New Agile Voices. Here’s the video of my talk. I highlighted the early days of my career...

Sorry, Dolly – 9 to 5 it ain’t now. The lines between home hours and work hours have been blurred significantly during the pandemic with remote work.  Even when going to the office was still the norm, the 40-hour workweek has been non-existent for a couple of decades for most...

Your Company Culture Starts with Recruiting. Don’t F*ck It Up. A lot of companies of late have been touting their incredible company culture. They extoll how their culture has enabled them to succeed and how people can have a lot of fun while co-creating products and services that their customers...

Let Them Eat Cake How do you proceed to eat an entire elephant? One bite at a time. Wait – I thought this was a post on cake? Why are you talking about eating an elephant? Let me get to that in a moment. (Unless you made an elephant cake...

An Alternative Way to Teach, and Estimate with, Story Points I recently gave a lightning talk a few weeks ago at the Cambridge Agile Exchange MeetUp. The topic I covered was about an alternative way to teach and do story pointing. This alternative technique was something I came up with...