AI art: lady in front of cityscape Two week of links again. Will’s post about hiring quality was fascinating. And I learned about Sturgeon’s Bias, which I have to remember for the future. Leadership One-on-ones with executives. - cool advice from Will Larson about ad-hoc 1:1s with executives Is Engineering Management Bullshit? - no Sturgeon’s Biases - TIL: “Ninety percent of everything is crud.” Eight Traps to Avoid When You Take Over a Team - a bit late, but thanks ...
AI generated art of modern, but run down office building Quiet week. The team assessment repository has a lot in it and I just started looking through it. Interesting papers about urbanism, but maybe I just say that because it confirms my bias. Leadership Multi-team Software Delivery Assessment - nice collection of useful team assessments, everything from team health, to delivery and security Imposter Syndrome [Comic] – it’s me Benefits of Pulse Surveys for Remote and Distributed Teams - a bit spammy. I used to be highly sceptical, but now I am a convert. If done right and with the right communication, these can be super helpful for all teams. ...
Two weeks worth of links. This time with a comics extra instead of leadership links. Lots of good environment and urbanism articles. And the most surprising podcast about how rescuing people from cars is changing. Engineering A Deep Dive into Memory Leaks in Ruby - part 2 CPAN - This Day In History [Podcast] - when I switched from Perl to PHP, CPAN was what I was missing the most Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2022 - also available as raw data! ...
Some good long reads today: The classic “Give Away Your Legos”, how to slowly kill your org, Why Spotify Squads are a Failure and Bicycle Graveyards. A few podcasts, the one about agile is definitely worth it. Leadership ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups - classic article 190 Brilliant Examples of Company Values - so many values, so similar. The ones from Build-A-Bear a fun. ...
A few good articles about how to be a bad leader. And some depressing environmental news. Play Stray to cheer you up! Leadership Hierarchy of Metrics - this is a nice happy land of metrics and probably not happening in the real world A Checklist Manifetsy - an Etsy checklist for new features and about checklists in general ...