Author: Alexis
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The Motive
Why so many leaders abdicate their most important responsibilities? The sentence above is the subtitle of The Motive, a book by Patrick Lencioni, the famous author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage. The first part of the book is a business fable. If you read I am a Software Engineer and…
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The Culture Map
The Culture Map is an excellent book by Erin Meyer. As my current team evolves in an international context, I had the idea to use the culture map as an icebreaker to start one of our quarterly meetings. The team is composed of people from France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and The Netherlands. The team has…
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Aesop’s Fables in an enterprise setting
His words piqued our interest so we reached out to Ranjith to learn more about what he’s up to and how the book helped him. Here’s what he had to say.
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What happened next?
This article is written from the perspective of a fictional character, Sandrine, the protagonist of I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge.
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What a review!
Emilien Macchi is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He’s been a contributor to OpenStack since almost its inception as an open-source project. I had the pleasure of having Emilien on Le Podcast to discuss how learning and sharing were essential ways of growing his career in Software Engineering. We covered many topics…
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful is a book by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter published in 2007. The trouble with successful people is that they tend to believe that their “bad” habits are not so “bad.” They have proof of that. They are successful. So,…
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Grow your Software Engineering Career with Emilien
Emilien Macchi is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is French and lives in Canada. He contributes to OpenStack nearly since the inception of the open-source project. I had the pleasure to get Emilien on Le Podcast to discuss how learning and sharing were essential ways of growing his career in Software…
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Funny thing about launching a book…
A day takes a long time to travel around the world. So, we set the book to go live on Amazon on May 1, and here in Australia, and over where Alexis is in France it’s May 1 and the book is available on amazon.com.au and amazon.fr. But amazon.com isn’t quite at May 1 yet, although by the time you…
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Jason’s Thirteen Rules of a Team
In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure of receiving Jason McKerr. Jason is the Engineering leader for Management and Automation at Red Hat (great things like Ansible, Insights, Satellite…) My objective was to have Jason explain his Thirteen Rules of a Team which I discovered during one mentoring session with one…
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All about OKRs with Bart
In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure of discussing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with Bart den Haak. Bart is a Software Engineer who fell in love with OKRs at a startup more than 10 years ago. He has continued to use OKRs since then and he is now advising companies on…
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The First Review
Julien Danjou is a Staff Engineer at Datadog, where he’s in charge of building a production profiler for Python. The post relates the story leading to his review of the book.