Tag: Psychological Safety

Quality Is Systemic

Software quality is more the result of a system designed to produce quality, and not so much the result of individual performance. That is: a group of mediocre programmers working with a structure designed to produce quality will produce better software than a group of fantastic programmers working in a system designed with other goals.

September 9th, 2022 • programming psychological safety quality software

Delegation: Make Failure A (Safe) Option

Your gut instinct is probably to wait to delegate some work until you’re fully confident that the person can handle it. This is often a mistake. Instead of withholding a delegation opportunity from someone because they might fail, you should instead create a situation where failure will be safe.

July 20th, 2021 • delegation failure management psychological safety

Psychological safety in the InfoSec industry

My co-worker Eric Mill recently brought up the topic of psychological safety. Referencing a study by Google that points to psychological safety as a key factor in successful teams, Eric wrote:

Maybe these situations sounds familiar to others (they definitely both are to me):
Did you feel like you could ask what the goal was without the risk of sounding like you’re the only one out of the loop? Or did you opt for continuing without clarifying anything, in order to avoid being perceived as someone who is unaware?

April 18th, 2016 • fav infosec jobs psychological safety