Extra section for the mess that is happening with CentOS at the moment. Thanks Red Hat! Lots of good other stuff too. Engineering Management Weak and strong team concepts. - I am all for focus on teams, when you can. Good summary from Will Larson as usual. Working From Home During a Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities - “In the end, it looks like we are doing more and for longer. Some people are loving WFH. Some hate it. Productivity is personal and work from home is personal.” ...
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 Management Shared vision on product - must be nice to have more teams than products :-) Conway’s Law: Critical for Efficient Team Design in Tech - it might be my bubble, but recently I have been thinking a lot about Conway’s Law and the Reverse Conway Manoeuvre ...
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 Management Skills 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 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. ...