Headcount Leadership Software Development Underperforming Technical Team 
OpenView Labs
JANUARY 12, 2022
Take Stack Overflow , the world’s largest software developer network, community, and platform, serving close to 100 million monthly visitors. It might be a little surprising to learn that the leadership style at Stack Overflow is decidedly not binary. This doesn’t mean that playbooks and frameworks are always a bad idea.
Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth
MARCH 23, 2020
Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.
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OpenView Labs
MAY 20, 2021
The same was true when I ran the People function at a software development consultancy that doubled its headcount to ~100 while reducing attrition from 40% to 5% voluntary in 18 months. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”. A final comment on purpose: It should come from your team.
Crafty CTO
APRIL 12, 2020
Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.
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