Catching up with podcast. The ones about Coaching Habit, Brian Kernighan and The Pedestrian are very good. Leadership Tackling bottlenecks at scale-ups [Podcast] - Podcast with a summary of the idea behind the content I shared recently. How To Do Less - about hard prioritization “First, you need to lower everybody’s expectations, ASAP.” Why greater autonomy is the future of software development - release of the Atlassian State of the Developer Report [PDF] ...
I have to confess that I have been still doom-scrolling Ukraine news.I still have some interesting links and even some fun reads. Leadership The dreaded reorg - “draft your communication plan” is always a good start Dimensions of Power - I didn’t realise companies do private/secret levels. How We’re Helping Our Remote Team Feel More Connected - a lot of common sense, but good summary Engineering An update on recent service disruptions - I love these posts, we should all learn from each others outages ...
Some longer reads and good podcasts about leading and structuring teams. And mostly amusing random links. Leadership The SPACE of Developer Productivity - framework for thinking about developer productivity Refactor → Organisation - story of the reorganisation of BBC’s website team When There’s Doubt, There’s No Doubt: How to Protect Culture and Eliminate Hiring Biases (with Nick Dimitrov, Founder of Bar Raiser) [Podcast] - good strategies for hiring ...
Vinyl record on recorder player The war is on my mind, but not in my links. I enjoyed the podcast about bad bosses and the discussion about time in the last article. Leadership Bottlenecks of Scaleups - new blog series that looks very promising Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform - that is probably one problem of some platform teams: they don’t treat their internal users as customers and the platform as a product. ...
Most of what I read this week was related to the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. But I have nothing to add or to share about it. Lets hope that this gets resolved soon and Ukraine prevails. Leadership The State Of Burnout In Tech - results of surveying lots of tech professionals. As far as I am aware I suffered burnout three times in my career. They come in different severities and durations. I might have missed or ignored some of the smaller ones. The survey also comes with an risk assessment tool. ...