Center of the Road IFTTT is forgetting to push some of my links to Pocket, so I am figuring out a new way for my link posting work-flow. Today some great podcasts about leadership and also a course I really enjoy. Engineering ManagementShared vision on product - must be nice to have more teams than products :-) ...
It seems the whole world is slacking of for Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Focus on engineering management and urbanism with some good longer reads. Engineering ManagementSkills map for strategic growth - Great post about matching skills to requirements and to engage and coach your team. This is a great blog from a former colleague and I can't believe I just discovered it now. Chief Notion Officer - I have been thinking about knowledge management in companies forever. I tried everything from wikis, to google drive to github. They tend to be write-only or succumb to bit rot very quickly. ...
Engineering ManagementHow 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 ...
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. ManagementThe 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 ...
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. Because a lot of them are horrible it is natural to want to improve them over time. I am going to describe a bit how I like my meetings and why. Some of my thinking has changed with being fully remote during the coronavirus crisis, but most of it applies to in person and remote meetings. An ideal meeting has a facilitator, the minimal length of time, the right attendees, non-attendees not fearing to miss out, everybody being focused and prepared. A good meeting can be more inclusive for all participants, by allowing everybody to arrive prepared and participate in a meaningful way. ...