When I wrote the review of The Manager’s Path I started to think about other books I wish I had read earlier. Usually these triggered some kind of change in how I approach my work or life. This list is definitely incomplete and I will add more to the goodreads list at the bottom of this post. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck I still remember when and where I read this for the first time. It was on a plane from the US OSCON back to London where I had my start-up. ...

Time management: the leadership meta-problem.https://lethain.com/time-management/ Advice for a new executivehttps://larahogan.me/blog/advice-for-new-executive/ The Second Edition of “Refactoring”https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-ed.html#most-people-will-be-disappointed-by-the-second-edition https://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-2nd-changes.html Use channels, not direct messages - 9 tipshttps://blog.arkency.com/use-channels-not-direct-messages/ Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design.”https://lethain.com/notes-philosophy-software-design/ Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontendhttps://githubengineering.com/removing-jquery-from-github-frontend/ Why We Prioritize Reading at Buffer and the 19 Most-Read Books From Our Teamhttps://open.buffer.com/prioritize-reading/ The 5 Whys Process We Use to Understand the Root of Any Problemhttps://open.buffer.com/5-whys-process/ CI and the Change Loghttp://www.davefarley.net/?p=263 PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone [LWN subscriber-only content]https://lwn.net/Articles/764515/ ...

60 agile pros tell me what really matters in agile todayhttps://www.atlassian.com/blog/agile/ask-me-anything-agile Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linuxhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/valves-steam-play-uses-vulkan-to-bring-more-windows-games-to-linux/ Signalhttps://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/08/signal/ Serverless Firsthttps://zef.me/serverless-first-d2117ecc12da James Mickens on the Current State of Computer Securityhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/james_mickens_o.html New T3 Instances – Burstable, Cost-Effective Performancehttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t3-instances-burstable-cost-effective-performance/ The not-so-secret trick to cutting solo car commutes: Charge for parking by the day https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-not-so-secret-trick-to-cutting-solo-car-commutes-charge-for-parking-by-the-day/ Engineering Ladders at Meetuphttps://medium.com/making-meetup/engineering-ladders-at-meetup-caacbea4916e Questions for our first 1:1https://larahogan.me/blog/first-one-on-one-questions/ Sharing Our Engineering Ladder http://dresscode.renttherunway.com/blog/ladder Liz Fong-Jones - Adopting SRE and Error Budgetshttps://youtu.be/7VeU6LnOUms ...

Original is here: https://github.com/christofdamian/manager-readme#manager-readme Update December 2020: I decided to make the repository private for now. I have some doubt if a manager README makes sense and mine was also not up to date. I might pick this up again in the future. Manager README? A few people (not only managers) now share information in a README or how-to style document on the web. The first one I came across was How to Rands. I thought it is a good idea for new team members, but also for people in the company who don’t have constant contact with me. ...

Originally posted on the Devex Tech Blog. At Devex we try to optimise every aspect of our work and at times try radical new things. In this post I describe one of these journeys, that led us from Scrum, to Six Week Cycles, to Frankenscrumcyle and a possible future. Scrum In the product team at Devex we used a pretty standard Scrum process for about four years. In the beginning with one team in Manila and one in Barcelona and later with one or two teams just in Barcelona. As it is the case for most companies this wasn’t a 100% out of the book Scrum, but slightly adapted to our needs. ...