Couldn’t agree more. Big companies, take heed.

Be agile, don’t over think. Simple as that.

Yep

Great, quick read on stocks and options for startup employees.

What Y Combinator startups are using for hosting.

A great overview of a lot of good practices.

A great discussion on two types of cowboys and why you probably want a professional. I have to say that diverse teams makes scrum difficult but I still think having a diverse team of experts beats a homogenous team of jack of all trades, master of none.

So simple yet so hard. Management has to mature into leadership.

Kanban is getting some buzz these days. This is a very simple visual overview of how it works.

Well said! We as an industry need to ween ourselves off of death marches and its not going to come from management. Interestingly, I think many other industries could learn from this as well.

Notice where salary (and by extension all monetary compensation) is ranked.  Additionally the idea of progress works very nicely with agile/scrum ideals and GTD. Nothing that I didn’t think was obvious here but nice to see Harvard Business Review making it official