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Rob Kelly

Rob Kelly

On Middle Managers

A story about my role, my self-perception, and my attempt to resolve the dissonance between the two.

5d ago

On Middle Managers

5d ago

Rob Kelly

On the Manager’s Schedule

A manager is a maker too, and a maker a manager.

Jun 10

On the Manager’s Schedule

Jun 10

Rob Kelly

On Project Premortems

How to create space for a project team to reflect on failures before they become reality.

May 1

Five people standing in a room in front of a large screen.

May 1

Rob Kelly

On the Fallibility of Communication

A workshop helps me reflect on communication (though maybe not in the way the organizers intended)

Mar 27

On the Fallibility of Communication

Mar 27

Rob Kelly

On Midlife Change

This is a story about change for change’s sake and how it might boost our happiness as we age.

Jan 30

On Midlife Change

Jan 30

Rob Kelly

On the Economics of Gifts and Ideas

Christmas gives me the gift of a new category of non-value-adding waste for software and innovation projects.

Dec 18, 2023

On the Economics of Gifts and Ideas

Dec 18, 2023

Rob Kelly

On the Risks Of AI

The risk of AI is not that it will mislead, replace, or destroy us; the risk is that we abandon the sociotechnical systems that make AI…

Dec 11, 2023

On the Risks Of AI

Dec 11, 2023

Rob Kelly

On Hybrid

How to think about combining home and shared office work.

Oct 20, 2023

On Hybrid

Oct 20, 2023

Rob Kelly

Comment on “Building a WoW Repository on Git”

On an implementation project, I tend to put all of this in the README file of the Git repository for the project

Jun 26, 2023

Jun 26, 2023

Rob Kelly

On Interruptions

Why we should disable automated notifications (at least for a few hours every day)

Jun 15, 2023

On Interruptions

Jun 15, 2023

Rob Kelly

Rob Kelly

Senior Engineering Manager with Guidewire Software in Dublin, Ireland. I write about innovation, quality, and management in the software sector.

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