Events, talks, articles, announcements, and other news from the Nerd/Noir team.
Using Playbooks in Your Immersive Learning Environment
David Laribee discusses how using flexible playbooks can improve the performance of your coaching in this article for Training Industry Magazine.
How can flexible playbooks increase the success of your coaching? Playbooks help learners get from point A to point B. When used correctly, they create consistency where it matters. David Laribee breaks it down in this article for Training Industry Magazine.
Why Immersive Learning Is the Way to Go
In this article for Training Magazine, David Laribee explains why old-school training no longer works and how immersive learning improves productivity and performance.
If you are looking for engaging and sticky training for product and engineering teams, you need to be thinking in terms of immersive learning. In this article for Training Magazine, David Laribee lays out tactics for creating lasting change and solving real-world problems. Get rid of hypotheticals, encourage experimentation and leave outdated models behind.
Boardroom Insight Interviews Anne Steiner
Anne Steiner, who joined Nerd/Noir recently, shares her thoughts DevEx, developer productivity, AI, and software product management.
Explore how Anne Steiner, who joined Nerd/Noir in March 2024, aims to transform software product management and team collaboration in traditional companies. Steiner discusses the role of AI in enhancing data analytics and why development velocity shouldn't be the only metric for success. Dive into the full interview for her insights on shaping high-impact product teams at Boardroom Insight.
Outcomes, Not Outputs: Making Measurement Meaningful
The article from DevOps Digest, authored by David Laribee, discusses the pitfalls of focusing solely on output metrics within software development and suggests a shift towards measuring outcomes instead.
This article from DevOps Digest, authored by Dave Laribee, discusses the pitfalls of focusing solely on output metrics within software development and suggests a shift towards measuring outcomes instead. Laribee illustrates how traditional metrics can lead to misguided efforts, such as gaming the system, and do not necessarily reflect meaningful progress or value. He advocates for outcome-based measurement, which focuses on the actual impact of work on customers and business goals, promoting a more effective and meaningful approach to assessing performance in software development environments.
Welcome Anne Steiner!
We’re proud to announce technology industry veteran and former Cprime CEO Anne Steiner is joining our company to lead business development.
Nerd/Noir, a consulting firm specializing in transforming large-scale, product engineering organizations, today announces technology industry veteran and former Cprime CEO Anne Steiner is joining the company to lead business development. Read more on Yahoo! Finance.
5 Spicy Strategies for leading change
In this presentation, David Laribee, co-founder of Nerd/Noir, details practical strategies that have propelled his teams and clients to achieve more impactful and lasting outcomes while managing the many changes software development faces today.
Does the word “transformation” make you hesitant or skeptical? Maybe even cringe a little? If so, you’re not alone. Traditional approaches of top-down implementation, endless training, and exhaustive coaching often fall short of making a genuine impact.
In this presentation, David Laribee, co-founder of Nerd/Noir, details practical strategies that have propelled his teams and clients to achieve more impactful and lasting outcomes while managing the many changes software development faces today.
Thanks to SEP for hosting us - we always enjoy hanging out with this awesome crew!
Making Developer’s Lives Easier
Hypepotamus talks with Nerd/Noir CEO David Laribee about the company’s strategies for improving developer productivity.
David Laribee chats with Hypepotamus about transforming developer productivity and corporate culture. We discuss our unique strategies in immersive learning and technical operations, aimed at enhancing digital transformation and business efficiency. Read more about Nerd/Noir's success in attracting big clients and fostering a vibrant work environment.
Improving Performance Without Killing Morale
Tech leaders, including our own David Laribee, discuss ten ways to keep both team performance and spirits strong and engaged.
Performance improvement should be approached holistically, not simply as a mandate that individual teams must fulfill. “Leaders need to understand and respect the capacity of their teams and prioritize accordingly,” says David Laribee, CEO of digital transformation services firm Nerd/Noir. Read the full article in CIO Magazine.
The Dangers of Development Teams Chasing Metrics
Discover ways to get teams focused less on data points and more on end goals. David Laribee lays out pitfalls and fallacies that revolve around development teams focusing too heavily on metrics instead of outcomes.
This article on PropertyCasualty360 discusses the potential drawbacks of development teams excessively focusing on metrics. David Laribee cautions against the common pitfalls associated with metric-centric approaches, including the manipulation of data to meet goals ("juking the stats"), the dangers of prioritizing a single metric which can stifle innovation, and the stagnation in goals that fail to evolve with team capabilities.
When Art and Tech Converge: Chatting with Alexandra West
Nerd/Noir COO Alexandra West speaks about her background in the art and entertainment fields and the lessons she brings to the world of tech.
Jennifer Didier interviews Alexandra West, COO of Nerd/Noir for the Tech in the Right Direction podcast. Alexandra shares her journey from the world of art to technology, back to art and back again! Listen to her story of how her creative background has allowed her to experience and share a unique point of view.
Announcing our Partnership with DX
We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with DX, the trusted platform for measuring and improving developer experience. We’re now able to offer actionable insights in six weeks, accelerating our commitment to helping engineering organizations measure and improve developer productivity,
Today we announced our partnership with DX, the trusted platform for measuring and improving developer experience. This partnership enables Nerd/Noir to offer an exclusive six-week Discovery License of the DevEx 360 tool within our Developer Experience Insights program– which empowers businesses to benchmark performance, pinpoint the biggest opportunities for developers, and provide teams with individualized insights and recommendations. Read more on Yahoo Finance.
Dojo & Emergent Practices
In this Devopsdays Atlanta 2022 keynote, I explore how two, technical novel practices emerged from dojo environments.
The video below is from a keynote I did at Devopsdays Atlanta 2022. In it, I describe the concept of “novel practices” through two examples uncovered in dojos I’ve been involved with.
The first novel practice, Architectural Mapping, describes a mashup of mob programming, story mapping and journeys, and the C4 Model of Software Architecture.
The second novel practice, Refactoring with Telemetry, describes a method for combining static analysis tools with long binges of refactoring legacy code to drive conversations around code quality, quality metrics, and the impact a team can have over time in reducing entropy in a legacy codebase.
I continue to use these practices in my coaching today. The dojo is the perfect lab for this kind of practice innovation and real-time adaptation of so-called “best practices.”