Catching up with everything again. Some good long reads in the Work section, especially the report about women in the workplace. Management Agile vs Kanban [YouTube] - forget about the “vs”, he just gives an introduction to both and some personal opinions Don’t worry, you’re not wasting your mentor’s time. - good to know, now I need some mentors… 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number - “By shipping early and often you have the unique competitive advantage” ...

Sad news about Michael K. Williams and Sir Clive Sinclair passing away. People who influenced me in quite different but profound ways. Of course you also get the my usual link dump, again from the last two weeks. Environment news are frustrating as always and I don’t think COP26 is going to cheer me up. ...

Back from my holiday and catching up with the news. New section on Agile this time as something at work required a bit of research into this. Management What’s going on with the ‘Great Resignation’? - I have heard this term in different contexts a few times now. I guess this will continue for a bit more. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story - example story about how this could happen and what to expect ...

As every year at Devex the company takes a week long Summer break in August. August isn’t really the best month to take holiday in Spain, because on the one hand everybody does and on the other hand tends to be really hot. That’s why I tend to do a trip on my own, without my girlfriend. In the recent years this have been cycling holidays. ...

This week I was mostly thinking about Scrum and how it can affect developer happiness and productivity. I have certainly an opinion, but I am still in the data and information gathering phase. I also caught up with podcasts again. Lots of good stuff about management. Management Introducing DecisionOps - I am not sure that word will catch on, but still a nice post ...