Because I am travelling at the moment we have another double pack. Good stuff on management this week and depressing on the environment as usual. I haven’t decided if I’ll add a anti-cryptocurrency section or if I just leave it out. For now it is in random. Management The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers - I am not sure what is so micro about them, but still not bad for a list like this ...
Lots of technology links and longer reads today. Management The Planning Fallacy - what to do about underestimating Limits to one Product Backlog - 3 - continuation, but I am slowly loosing interest Windmills: Can Scrum be fixed? - Ron is still on a mission Sharing our Engineering Career Framework with the world - another one. It has a lot of different roles, which is nice Why ‘bring solutions not problems’ doesn’t work - I recently started wondering about this and some other common advice too ...
This weeks ransomware attack shines another light on the dumpster fire of cryptocurrencies. Some banks are waking up, but it is probably too late for a lot of people. On the other hand some positive posts on management, engineering and urbanism. Management Leadership Stories from Slack by Michael Lopp [Podcast] - Rands telling stories about his experiences in various companies do archeology on ONE product initiative … even something small. visualize the journey. - nice timeline of a product initiative by John Cutler ...
Sorry for the long post, but this is again for two weeks. A few podcasts and lots of blog posts about the usual topics. The random selection also got a bit out of hand. Managment Limits to one Product Backlog - 1 - PO on team or feature There’s no ‘I’ in burnout “How do you give someone new work even as they’re drowning under the existing work?” ...
I was off last Friday, so this is a double dose. Remote work is probably a topic which will stay with us for a while, but it seems people want to start a war about it. Maybe it is OK to like different things here? Management Building an Incident Management Response Team - do something like that or similar ...