Friday Links 21-25

Friday Links 21-25

Lots of technology links and longer reads today. Management The Planning Fallacy - what to do about underestimating Limits to one Product Backlog - 3 - continuation, but I am slowly loosing interest Windmills: Can Scrum be fixed? - Ron is still on a mission Sharing our Engineering Career Framework with the world - another one. It has a lot of different roles, which is nice Why ‘bring solutions not problems’ doesn’t work - I recently started wondering about this and some other common advice too ...

16 July 2021 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-24

Friday Links 21-24

This weeks ransomware attack shines another light on the dumpster fire of cryptocurrencies. Some banks are waking up, but it is probably too late for a lot of people. On the other hand some positive posts on management, engineering and urbanism. Management Leadership Stories from Slack by Michael Lopp [Podcast] - Rands telling stories about his experiences in various companies do archeology on ONE product initiative … even something small. visualize the journey. - nice timeline of a product initiative by John Cutler ...

9 July 2021 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-23

Friday Links 21-23

Sorry for the long post, but this is again for two weeks. A few podcasts and lots of blog posts about the usual topics. The random selection also got a bit out of hand. Managment Limits to one Product Backlog - 1 - PO on team or feature There’s no ‘I’ in burnout “How do you give someone new work even as they’re drowning under the existing work?” ...

2 July 2021 · 7 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-21

Friday Links 21-21

Some new articles about remote work. This is becoming interesting for a lot of companies now, as office are reopening and employees are wondering what it will mean. Also some good thinking about testing and how to embrace your personality as a leader. Management TBM 23b/52: Cognitive Load "“My head hurts” is valid. It is a signal." Do you know your communication style at work? Take our quiz to find out - silly quiz, but apparently I am dominant ...

4 June 2021 · 5 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-20

Friday Links 21-20

Spotify and Shopify are publishing some good articles on technology and management recently. Also some good news for the environment. Management Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum - how one team at Spotify improved their team with Scrum Who’s the Boss? [Podcast] - about giving employees the freedom to express themselves at work Key Remote Work Statistics to Keep in Mind in 2021 - nothing surprising, the rest of 2021 will be interesting to watch ...

28 May 2021 · 4 min · Christof Damian