I am a bit disillusioned with our response to the climate crisis and the pandemic. So I am focusing on other things like management, nostalgia and urbanism! Management Agility ≠ Speed - common misunderstanding well explained My experience with Re-organising a team - some good tips to keep in mind for the next time Please dogfood your software interview homework - this are some awful examples. Who would work on a test for a whole day? ...
The Great Resignation has definitely arrived in mainstream media. Lots of good podcasts this time, about career paths, engineering organisations, learning and weird Chinese cassette tape culture. Management Managing Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering? [Podcast] - interview with Camille Fournier going into details of platform teams Why all new managers want to quit - I feel you ...
Some long reads this week. The one about longtermism and “Great Attrition” are very interesting. Management Ratings as Incentives - I once worked at a place doing the 1-5 ratings, with additional rules that acted as weird incentives. I liked the idea, but it failed in reality. Experimenting with Focus Weeks and Mob Programming - I still haven’t tried mob programming, but then I never got into pair programming either ...
Catching up and dreaming of a four day work week. Management The Sabotage List - nice idea to collect the stuff you are probably not going to do for reasons Always do Extra - if you have slack, do extra, not more of the same How to Understand the Power Structure [Comic] - funny :-) How Amazon Raised the Hiring Bar and Leveraged Narratives for Decision-Making (with Colin Bryar, Former Amazon VP) [Podcast] - interesting, but most things probably don’t apply to my or your job ...
Too many articles about management today! I got pulled into a rabbit hole about Thomasson Hyperart this week, which was fun. Management The Skill of Org Design - great long read about organisation design How to safely think in systems - “When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right” TBM 41a/52: Slow Down on Your Own Terms - I like the idea of working in different speeds. When introducing changes for example it is important to slow down (or take a long breath I like to call it) before introducing more ...