Leadership

A few months back a friend shared Steve Yegge’s Welcome to Gas Town post with our group and asked where everyone is. The post lays out a ladder for the AI coding process - eight stages, from “barely using it” to “running your own orchestrator.” Stage 1: Zero or near-zero AI Stage 2: Coding agent in the IDE, permissions on Stage 3: Same agent, YOLO mode Stage 4: Wide agent in the IDE - code is mostly diffs Stage 5: CLI, single agent, YOLO Stage 6: CLI, multi-agent, YOLO - three to five in parallel Stage 7: Ten-plus agents, hand-managed Stage 8: Building your own orchestrator When my friend shared the original post, I was transitioning to Stage 6/7 so this post is a bit delayed because I wanted to share the state only when I’m comfortable where I’m at. For me each step was a process, way of working and ultimately a mindset leap. ...

As a leader of a portfolio of products and areas, director or VP, the breath and depth of what you lead and with the team size you lead it is important to have the right structure in place to support the team(s) and the business. While right team structures are not a guarantee to success getting this part wrong can definitely create obstacles towards success. Recently adopted this model framework and thought it’s worth sharing. ...

One of my favorite management techniques is delegation poker. Delegation poker is a technique to arrive at how decisions are to be made. The decision makers can be two individuals (manager and report) or entire teams and their team leaders. The 7 delegation levels are: Level 1: Tell Level 2: Sell Level 3: Consult Level 4: Agree Level 5: Advise Level 6: Inquire Level 7: Delegate There is a ton of material out there but one article I frequently share is by Miquel Rodríguez which gives good detail and examples. Specifically love the non work examples with kids and restaurants: ...