Last year, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk on the Montessori method and leadership at Devoxx Benelux. I was thrilled to offer an enhanced version of this presentation in the UK. In contrast to the enormous cinema hall that hosted me in Belgium, the 120-seat room in the…
It was great to join the great community at DevOps Exchange in London to talk about Product Metrics for Internal Platforms. This was an introduction to the topic, so if you are already familiar with concepts such as Platform as a Product and Outcome-based Product development, you may find my…
Last week I presented in Belgium in front of the passionate Devoxx audience a talk on how I use the Montessori principles as a leadership tool. Very impressed with the Devoxx organisation; it is not an easy feat to run a conference with 3000+ attendees smoothly. I shared for the…
Last week I was part of a Panel discussing Platform teams/products with Gábor Csomák, Jason Dryhurst-Smith, Ketan Gupta, and our fantastic host Michael Sullivan. The recording is now available, and it covers a lot of exciting topics on Internal Platforms (think your Cloud team) or External Platforms (think Amazon…
I had a great time prepping for the interview with CTO Mastermind and Alex has been an incredible host. Truly an interesting conversation where I expanded on a number of topics close to my heart: * what companies should focus on to make the employee engaged and high performing* * why autonomy…
A few months ago, the incredible Emma Hopkinson-Spark interviewed me during one of the CTOCraft bytes events. The discussion was a 360 view on leadership and people, but the core part we really delve into where: * employees motivation and why most companies are doing it wrong * how autonomy needs to…
Recently, many people who work with me have reached a point where they have started considering moving into a management career path. This career change has become more and more common, and at times is not really clear how different the two careers are. For this reason, I was thrilled…
A few days ago, I presented at the Agnostic Agile, a talk I worked on for a while on uncertainty in Product development. Although my focus has shifted back to Engineering Leadership, delivery is a crucial aspect of it. Handling uncertainty and creating a process that allows teams to be…