Video: Level Up 2019 Keynote
What have the Wright Brothers, the original Boeing 737 and the Airbus A380 got to do with Redgate’s internal development conference, Level Up 2019?
Read More Video: Level Up 2019 KeynoteAuthor: Chris Smith
Chris is a Head of Product Delivery at Redgate, a purveyor of ingeniously simple software tools and services. His job is to lead software development teams, helping them to solve their own problems and do the best work of their lives.
Level Up 2019 has landed!
On Tuesday 19th March 2019, Redgate held their 2nd annual internal product development conference, Level Up 2019. We, the organisers, aimed to improve the event over last year’s successful first try. But did we succeed?
Read More Level Up 2019 has landed!Do your team know why you lead how you lead?
While understanding the “Why” behind a task or action is important, understanding the “Why” behind someone’s approach to leadership can be transformative.
Read More Do your team know why you lead how you lead?Improving Level Up, Redgate’s internal development conference
How Redgate has learnt from our first ever internal product development conference to make this year’s event, Level Up 2019, even better.
Read More Improving Level Up, Redgate’s internal development conferenceWhy I lead how I lead
While understanding the “Why” behind a task or action is important, understanding the “Why” behind someone’s approach to leadership can be transformative. In this post, I share my Whys behind how I lead and what I do.
Read More Why I lead how I leadVideo: How to level-up learning & development
Back in October Jeff Foster and I gave a talk at Agile Cambridge 2018 about the drive to improve Learning & Development at Redgate Software.
Read More Video: How to level-up learning & developmentWhen agile jumped the shark
Three years ago agile at Redgate lost its way.
Read More When agile jumped the sharkThe Taps Model: A tool to explore cognitive overload
I’ve come up with a tool that my team and I have used to explore the pressure exerted on leaders by their many responsibilities, important tasks and interests. We call it The Taps Model and in this post I explain what it is and how to use it.
Read More The Taps Model: A tool to explore cognitive overloadWas our self-organising interview team experiment a success?
When faced with dysfunction in our interviewing process we decided to improve things by creating a self-organising team. But did it work?
Read More Was our self-organising interview team experiment a success?Redgate’s Fantastic Beasts (and how we improve them)
At Redgate we’ve found that development teams with clear purpose, self-direction and freedom to act were the most engaged and delivered amazing results. To shape all our teams to have these qualities we identified six key principles and unleashed our Fantastic Beasts!
Read More Redgate’s Fantastic Beasts (and how we improve them)