Agile

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. ...

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. ...

Steven from Drive To Improve interviewed me and Fernando Palomo about balancing technical and business needs of a company. Steven did a very good job and made it did feel much shorter than it was. Good to see Fernando again too, working with him at Splendia was brilliant. Excuse my English and hair.

The Three Flaws in Software Design & How to Avoid Them http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIJ7HGm2bv20QrtwcWemSRCI Github: Updated Services UI https://github.com/blog/1827-updated-services-ui Atlassian: Now in JIRA Agile Labs: an all new control chart http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/now-jira-agile-labs-new-control-chart/ Atlassian: 6 key ways to optimize development with a control chart http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/6-key-ways-optimize-development-control-chart/ How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/28/how-disqus-went-realtime-with-165k-messages-per-second-and-l.html 3 ways to do eager loading (preloading) in Rails 3 & 4 http://blog.arkency.com/2013/12/rails4-preloading/ Drowning in problems: http://game.notch.net/drowning/ There were also some rants about TDD, which I am not going to bother to list

John Resig: Write Code Every Day http://ejohn.org/blog/write-code-every-day/ Agilar: Scrum teams: self-organizing or self-directed? http://blog.agilar.org/index.php/2014/04/09/scrum-teams-self-organizing-or-self-directed/ etsy engineering youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/etsyengineering