Matt Schouten

Thoughts on building people, software, and systems.

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  • State of Work Survey, October 2020

    In the spirit of surveys like the DORA survey or Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey, it’s time for the next round of the State of Work survey. A lot of things have changed since June: kids have gone back to school, sports leagues have gone back to doing sports, offices have re-opened, and people have adapted.…

  • State of Work Survey, June 2020 – Results!

    After holding the survey open a bit longer than planned plus a few delays in data collection, I’m excited to share the results of the State of Work Survey for June 2020. To everyone who provided input, thank you. I’m not going to restate the entire report here. I’ll give a few topline findings. For…

  • State of Work Survey, June 2020

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    As anyone reading this in real-time knows, the world has looked different to most of us for the past couple of months. I’m curious what that means to everyone. For me, I started working for a pure-remote company last August, so I had very few work-related changes. On the other hand, I experienced social and…

  • Processes Through an Outcome Lens

    [This article was originally posted in 2019 on the now-gone Digital Solutions blog.] Processes are vital to modern organizations. Imagine you were asked to help improve an organization, and found that it had zero defined processes. You’d almost certainly start by implementing a process or two, then by wondering how in the world they got…