Episodes tagged: Management

We take on the tidy story that remote work killed productivity. It didn’t — it removed the things that were hiding weak management. We look at the presence trap, what genuinely broke, and why the easy diagnosis pointed at the wrong people.

Why do performance reviews reward visibility over impact, and why do so many developers leave them feeling misunderstood? In this episode, James unpacks why performance reviews are quietly broken, and what that’s doing to teams.

Developers leave jobs all the time, but rarely share the real reasons. James explores why developers quit and what companies miss.

James takes aim at management practices that are hurting developer productivity and morale. What do managers need to stop doing?

Agile gets blamed for a lot of failures, but is Agile really the problem? James argues that leadership failures are often the real culprit.