If your standup meetings never result in change, theyβre probably just status meetings. ronlichty.blogspot.com/2019/12/bett...
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Software Engineering Management, untangling organizational knots, creating roadmaps, delivering great products. Author, Programmer, Service, Integrity. Co-author, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams.
If your standup meetings never result in change, theyβre probably just status meetings. ronlichty.blogspot.com/2019/12/bett...
09.02.2026 19:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Making the case to CEOs: Using up 100% capacity prevents responsiveness. You must protect 20% headroom, margin, slack - itβs not waste - itβs the capacity to seize opportunity when it counts the most. mrjoe.uk/the-importan... βJoe Leech
15.01.2026 22:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bluebird day yesterday at Bear Valley cross country with friends Dave and Steve Milne (can just see them disappearing over herringbone hill behind me, on the Equipe trail) - fast skate skiers, they. I'm on classic skis at 7,000 feet these days. (Still willing to skate at 3,000 feet in the Cascades!)
13.01.2026 20:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs never been the speed of your developers. Never.
03.01.2026 05:55 β π 2 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0Traditional scaling creates the very problems it's meant to solve!
@jamesshore.bsky.social James Shore shares why the common wisdom of carefully aligning teams and responsibilities eventually breaks down, and how #FASTAgile offers a fundamentally different approach.
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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
09.12.2025 01:26 β π 19087 π 7427 π¬ 1396 π 563The best CEOs donβt run at 100%. They protect headroom β time, energy, capital β so they can act fast when opportunity strikes.
11.12.2025 10:11 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Loved C. But loved Pascal more. (Course I loved assembly, too.)
13.12.2025 23:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sunset Dunes art exhibition: Love that the artists are all local; mostly hyperlocal.
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WOW! AN HONOR! β GCN
06.12.2025 04:16 β π 29774 π 5871 π¬ 822 π 538The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
06.12.2025 04:29 β π 38745 π 7491 π¬ 508 π 302Kelly just received a multiyear deal with SiriusXM. Her on-air comments defending Epstein's child trafficking make it clear: she should NOT have a platform with millions of listeners. Sign the petition now to demand that SIriusXM cancel Megyn Kellyβs show NOW! sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...
04.12.2025 01:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I grew up being told "the older you get, the more conservative you become." I'm finding that the older I get, the more I just want our society to be more tolerant, charitable, kind, peaceable, and ensure that everyone has what they need to survive and thrive.
02.12.2025 18:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seattleβs Eastside has a bike-powered βstreet sweeperβ for bike lanes. www.kuow.org/stories/clea...
02.12.2025 04:30 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Stop Scam Ads on Social Media
Sign our petition for the government to hold social media companies accountable for posting ads that could scam consumers action.consumerreports.org/sm-20251117-...
20.11.2025 17:00 β π 48 π 55 π¬ 8 π 8Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op.53 - Heroic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1-u... Chopin must be the greatest piano composer ever. Amazing runs. I studied piano for nearly a decade. No idea how to execute those long runs.
27.11.2025 01:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did you miss βEnlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teamsβ? Itβs recorded. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5r...
26.11.2025 01:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0SWOT - a useful framework for decision-making. Chris Sims will review in his Scrum Professionals meetup next week. And hands-on, for your next career move or your next product direction. Review combined w/ opportunity to think thru your very own challenge. Priceless. www.meetup.com/scrumprofess...
25.11.2025 22:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sobering. And wonderful. Just finished the sixth/last episode of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. Recommended. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
24.11.2025 00:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More reasons to avoid Tesla and Musk
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Tonight's movie: Episode 1 of Ken Burns' new documentary, The American Revolution. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
18.11.2025 05:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
lolol these fucks. you're catholic! the pope is infallible! you don't like that, go be an evangelical, which is what you really want to be.
16.11.2025 02:19 β π 280 π 47 π¬ 16 π 22Schwab CIO Dawn Lepore presenting the year's Technical Leader of the Year award to Ron Lichty, soon to be promoted to VP Engineering at Schwab
25 years ago! Schwabβs CIOβs Technical Leader of the Year award. I was in year two, leading the Java Object Services initiative of CIO Dawn Lepore, here presenting the award. Exciting, heady times! I was promoted to VP Eng a couple weeks later. So long ago, but that's definitely a younger-me face!
15.11.2025 20:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Meetup Banner: photo of speaker Ron Lichty Talk Title: Enlightened Managers: The Key to Empowering & Encouraging Self-Organizing Teams Meetup Host: Enterprise Agile Global Community
Think about the best team youβve ever been on. What characterized it? Think about the best manager youβve ever worked for. What characterized her or him? Thatβs our topic Thursday night. Join us. www.meetup.com/enterprise-a...
11.11.2025 07:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKES YOU GREAT AT BEING A PROGRAMMER IS THE ABILITY TO SHUT OUT THE WORLD, TO CLIMB INTO THE MICROPROCESSOR AND LISTEN TO THE GATES OPEN AND CLOSE ...AND THAT'S JUST EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU NEED TO DO AS A MANAGER. β RON LICHTY
Managing programmers, why programming management is hard, what makes a good programming manager, the attitude change required to pivot to managing, self-organizing teams, team dynamics and motivation, and performance. Enduring advice: Software Engineering Radio: se-radio.net/2017/10/se-r...
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