“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” - Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species Note: I originally started writing this article all the way back in 2016, got distracted and left it on…

Whether you’re a big company looking to move fast or a small startup growing your team, size really does matter. — Jeff Bezos, of the Amazon, is famously (if unreliably) credited with coining the two-pizza rule. This rule states that any team should be well-fed with only two pizzas, and is intended to imply that small teams are more effective than larger ones. As someone who is both a little obsessed…

The Google Sheet mentioned in this article is available to anyone here. If you don’t work in tech (and perhaps even if you do), you may not know that the ‘ultimate’ tech role in a company is deeply varied. …

How Generative AI will impact product engineering teams — Part 5 — This is the fifth part of a six part series investigating how generative AI productivity tools aimed at developers, like Github Copilot, ChatGPT and Amazon CodeWhisperer might impact the structure of entire product engineering teams. In Part 4, we explored: The opportunities Generative AI presents for organisations during an economic…

The Impact of AI on Product Engineering teams — Part 4 — This is the fourth part of a six part series investigating how generative AI productivity tools aimed at developers, like Github Copilot, ChatGPT and Amazon CodeWhisperer might impact the structure of entire product engineering teams. In Part 3, we explored: How Generative AI tools could potentially upend the longstanding ratio…

The Impact of AI on Product Engineering teams — Part 3 — This is the third part of a six part series investigating how generative AI productivity tools aimed at developers, like Github Copilot, ChatGPT and Amazon CodeWhisperer might impact the structure of entire product engineering teams. In Part 2, we explored: How generative AI tools like ChatGPT are redefining the way…

How Generative AI will impact product engineering teams — Part 2 — This is the second part of a six part series investigating how generative AI productivity tools aimed at developers, like Github Copilot, ChatGPT and Amazon CodeWhisperer might impact the structure of entire product engineering teams. In Part 1, we explored: The landscape of product engineering and the possibility that teams…

What impact will Generative AI coding and productivity tools have on teams that build software products? — I think it’s probably safe to assume that we’re now past the point where there is still any debate that generative AI tools — like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Dall-E — are going to make an impact on the way that we work. The only remaining questions are really ‘how big?’…

The horrible collision of VR and Return To Office working I’m really quite bemused by Apple’s Vision Pro product release. For those that haven’t seen it, Apple describe it as “a revolutionary spatial computer”. The less charitable among us might call it the Apple HoloLens. Being first to market was never Apple’s jam. …