Looking to the Future at Stride Consulting

Stride ConsultingAt Stride, our job is to deliver custom software. But we exist because we love collaborating with each other.

For a company of such thoughtful and hopeful people, measures of business value and professional success are necessary but not sufficient descriptions of the future we want to build together. Even as we work to help our clients achieve their aims and improve working conditions, we aspire to make a positive impact on society and help build a brighter future for our planet and for generations to come.

This is an an audacious vision for a small company particularly in an industry as privileged and complicit as technology. To be candid, not one I was ready to champion before my experience working with Striders.

So how do we translate this into our goals and day to day actions so that we get closer to achieving our purpose?

Read the full post at Stride Consulting blog.

The next big thing

The hot topic in the scrum community is scale.

Size may offer more opportunity (it may not) but it demands overhead and compromise.

Necessity forces us to skip to advanced topics but there are so many fundamentals to master:

  • recruiting and developing talented and diverse individuals,
  • forming collaborative and highly productive teams,
  • crafting ambitious work at sustainable pace,
  • excellence, invention, and joy that benefits ourselves, our peers, our customers, and end users.

I’m not as interested in learning how to work with more people as I am in learning how to invent valuable software really, really well.