Engineering

Catching up and dreaming of a four day work week. Management The Sabotage List - nice idea to collect the stuff you are probably not going to do for reasons Always do Extra - if you have slack, do extra, not more of the same How to Understand the Power Structure [Comic] - funny :-) How Amazon Raised the Hiring Bar and Leveraged Narratives for Decision-Making (with Colin Bryar, Former Amazon VP) [Podcast] - interesting, but most things probably don’t apply to my or your job ...

Too many articles about management today! I got pulled into a rabbit hole about Thomasson Hyperart this week, which was fun. Management The Skill of Org Design - great long read about organisation design How to safely think in systems - “When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right” TBM 41a/52: Slow Down on Your Own Terms - I like the idea of working in different speeds. When introducing changes for example it is important to slow down (or take a long breath I like to call it) before introducing more ...

Catching up with everything again. Some good long reads in the Work section, especially the report about women in the workplace. Management Agile vs Kanban [YouTube] - forget about the “vs”, he just gives an introduction to both and some personal opinions Don’t worry, you’re not wasting your mentor’s time. - good to know, now I need some mentors… 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number - “By shipping early and often you have the unique competitive advantage” ...

Sad news about Michael K. Williams and Sir Clive Sinclair passing away. People who influenced me in quite different but profound ways. Of course you also get the my usual link dump, again from the last two weeks. Environment news are frustrating as always and I don’t think COP26 is going to cheer me up. ...

This week I was mostly thinking about Scrum and how it can affect developer happiness and productivity. I have certainly an opinion, but I am still in the data and information gathering phase. I also caught up with podcasts again. Lots of good stuff about management. Management Introducing DecisionOps - I am not sure that word will catch on, but still a nice post ...