Engineering Management How to Structure Teams for Building Better Software Products - the book is on my long to-read list, but this post is already a good summary The 2020 Scrum Guide - references for “Pure(tm) Scrum” as not practised anywhere How Facebook kept the lights on when the world went remote [Webinar] - series of upcoming webinars about facebook going remote Creating & Achieving Goals [Podcast] - about setting clear goals and OKRs, probably one of the hardest subjects ...

A bit of a back-log again, lots of long reads about engineering, management and especially urbanism. Some good podcasts related to all of these too. The one from Mo Gawdat about happiness certainly made me think. Management The Art of the Awkward 1:1 - this is definitely one of my weak areas, my 1:1s are just not awkward enough most of the time Google’s initiative for more inclusive language in open source projects - check out the style guide for the details, lots of good pointers and some I might not have noticed myself. ...

I used to really hate meetings. As a developer they seem to just get into the way of doing real work. You sit in a room with other people who are probably thinking the same thing and you are itching to get back to your desk and do “real work”. But at some point you specialise, teams grow and you need some way to sync up. Suddenly you realise that meetings are where some decisions are made and you want to join as many as possible. ...

I am slow, but at least I am persistent. Four years ago I posted “What is in my bag. Part 1: Small Saddlebag”, and I kind of promised to post about what I take on sportives / gran fondos. This is not that post, because I haven’t taken part in any sportives for a while. Instead this is an update to the original post. I am still using the bag from the first post on my commuter bike. ...

Very light on links this week, maybe everybody is on holiday already. But I compensate with some nice podcasts references. Technology More online protection with the new VPN by Google One - a VPN from Google. I hope this is coming to Google Suite/Workspaces too. I also hope this kills off most of the shady VPN providers Bringing Personalized Search to Etsy - nice view inside an approach to personalised search ...