Thoughts from LeadDev NYC 2025

I recently attended LeadDev NYC 2025.

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I keep thinking people should have read Turn the Ship Around #LeadDevNewYork
A probability distribution for a completion date is a prediction of the future. #LeadDevNewYork
Who came up with the “estimate in complexity” nonsense again? #LeadDevNewYork
The company values that are written are not necessarily equivalent to the values that are actually valued within a company. #LeadDevNewYork
Are we going to see a Schein reference re: culture? #LeadDevNewYork
It’s pretty wacky to hear people reinvent Extreme Programming in presentations #LeadDevNewYork
I’m not surprised that a service with a random, rather than intention revealing, name is also poorly structured and hard to change. #LeadDevNewYork
Wary of labeling someone a high, medium, low performer as some kind of fundamental identity vs describing/addressing the effectiveness of observed behaviour #LeadDevNewYork
Wondering if rock star vs super star from Radical Candor is a different interpretation of pioneers, settlers, town planners #LeadDevNewYork