Archive - Heidi Helfand's Newsletter

Chart your Path when Forced to Adapt

I almost called this post “Who moved my cheese?” That’s the name of a book that my coworkers and I were each given one day at our software company back…

Jan 31, 2024 •

Raise Your Hands if Your Teams Have Changed

For the past 9 years as I’ve been doing talks about Dynamic Reteaming around the world, I’ve asked people a variant of the following question: “Raise…

Jan 23, 2024 •

Reteaming or Reorg?

I often get the question, “What’s the difference between a reteaming and a reorg?” Let’s explore.

Jan 16, 2024 •

The Switching Pattern and other Safety Nets

I just read the most recent Pragmatic Engineer newsletter post by Gergely Orosz on Section 174 of the US tax law (link at the bottom of this…

Jan 5, 2024 •

December 2023

November 2023

October 2023

Bounce Back - Strengthen your Teams to Weather Change

Forming, storming, norming, performing.

Oct 15, 2023 •

September 2023

HH 010 - Context Switch

What's New - September 2023

Sep 27, 2023 •

May 2023

HH 009 - Make Reteaming Boring like Deployments?

Interesting topic to think about. Do it more often, so that you’re “used to it,” and it becomes a common occurrence or “boring.” Like deploying tested…

May 6, 2023 •

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