3 posts tagged with "Teams"

As I have written about recently, the job market is in a state of significant change and uncertainty at the moment, and my personal circumstances are a reflection of that.

At the end of this week and after 7½ years, I will be leaving Deltatre for, well, nothing right now, and while that is scary and liberating in roughly equal measure I think it's also an opportunity.

One thing that I think is genuinely changing is the type — or shape — of individual that brings the most value, and I think (and hope) that this favours people like me.

The T-shaped individual has been a stalwart of tech teams for years (decades, even), but I think it's time to change the typographic analogy. It's time to be more tree-shaped.

In my last post, I explored the idea that we may be moving from a knowledge-based economy towards something that places greater emphasis on judgement, framing, and leverage.

That shift doesn’t just affect individuals. It has implications for how we structure teams, how we develop capability, and how we think about the long-term sustainability of engineering organisations.

I had meant to write this exactly three weeks ago to coincide with both my two-year anniversary in my current role at Deltatre and also the anniversary of my last day working "as normal" in the London office, but then I had too much other stuff to do, so here we are – a bit less timely, but still…

It would be fair to say that the last year has been... unusual. We've all had to suddenly adapt to a "new normal", whatever that means!