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. ...
I am catching up with my reading and listening. Nothing about the war in Europe. It is to fresh and too frustrating. I don’t even want to think about it. Leadership TBM 8/52: The Data-Informed Product Cycle - “We (hopefully) start with a Strategy” You Won’t Have All the Answers: Why Being Intellectually Honest and Disassociating from Ideas Makes You a Better Leader (with Remi Guyot, Chief Product Officer at BlaBlaCar) [Podcast] - how to get into management and how to enable people ...
Focus on urbanism again, with a two video crossover about zoning. I also enjoyed the origin story of Kayak. Leadership TBM 6/52: Inputs First. Bets Next - nothing new: start with the vision The truth about management in Silicon Valley: It doesn’t exist - I don’t buy that, but still a good read KAYAK: Paul English [Podcast] - cool Kayak origin story ...