Ben helps founders apply operational principles from the Royal Marines and 10 years in tech leadership to evolve world-beating tech teams. He uses a systems approach, with more breadth than dogmatic agile consulting, and deep technical experience that’s missing in business coaching.
We discuss:
- The synergy from two worlds: being a marine and software development.
- Developing situational awareness
- How to avoid getting shot
- What Ben sees most people lacking
- A set of mental models
- OODA
- How to move from system 2 to system 1
- Having some spare capacity
- Pre-brief + debrief
- Openness, being blameless, and inviting challenge
- Red team thinking
- Having a framework, drilling it first and then throwing chaos at it using the same framework to react
Find out more about Ben:
- https://twitter.com/commandodev
- https://commando.dev
- ben@commando.dev