Developer Tea

Delegation, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency

Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control

Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness

Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?

9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation

Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips

Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects

The "lollapalooza effect," a term coined by Charlie Munger, describes how multiple forces combine to produce a multiplicative, self-reinforcing outcome. In project planning, this effect often manifests negatively through a cycle of the planning fallacy, groupthink, anchoring, and the sunk cost fallacy, leading teams to...

Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups

The Dark Side of Optimism Bias

Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap

Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions

Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping

What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener

Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations

Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability

Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits

Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load

Two Tips for Better Retros - Add Specificity, Respect Uncertainty

One Big Step Versus A Small Random Step

Interrogate Your Decision Making Rules