Derek Ralston
With a people-centric and empathic leadership style, Derek optimizes product development organizations for high performance, resulting in increased value, engagement, and early predictable delivery. His goal is to cultivate a work culture that is intrinsically motivating and values autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
Posts by Derek Ralston
The Human Side of Being On-call: 5 Lessons for Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Life While Being On-call
Within DevOps, we talk a lot about the on-call process—but what about the human side of being on-call? For example, what are effective ways of...
The Problems With Agile and Scrum
Agile is a popular buzzword in software development, with some organizations and teams masquerading as “agile” while they are actually doing ...
Lessons in Building Well-Formed Scrum and Kanban Teams
In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos set a rule: teams shouldn’t be larger than what two pizzas can feed, no matter how large...
How We Scale Continuous Improvement and Agile Beyond Engineering at PagerDuty
This piece is co-authored by Roma Shah, Manager, Agile Leadership Team, PagerDuty. If you’ve worked on a team that has adopted Agile techniques, you...
From Scrum to Kanban: Why Most Delivery Teams at PagerDuty Made the Switch
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius Nearly two years ago, I joined PagerDuty as an Agile Coach with ...