Early Friday Links 22-12

Early Friday Links 22-12

Amiga 1000 Short and quiet week. I liked the refresher on engineering directors and 1:1s. LeadershipMailbag: Resources for Engineering Directors. - helpful summary of previous articles and book pointers Episode #2: The First Taste of Metrics - continuation of the metrics blog post series One on One Meetings: The Only Guide Managers Need - I get more and more annoyed by the Lighthouse posts, but this one is a good overview ...

April 14, 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 22-11

Friday Links 22-11

Catching up with podcast. The ones about Coaching Habit, Brian Kernighan and The Pedestrian are very good. LeadershipTackling bottlenecks at scale-ups [Podcast] - Podcast with a summary of the idea behind the content I shared recently. How To Do Less - about hard prioritization "First, you need to lower everybody’s expectations, ASAP." ...

April 8, 2022 · 5 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 22-10

Friday Links 22-10

I have to confess that I have been still doom-scrolling Ukraine news. I still have some interesting links and even some fun reads. LeadershipThe dreaded reorg - "draft your communication plan" is always a good start Dimensions of Power - I didn't realise companies do private/secret levels. How We're Helping Our Remote Team Feel More Connected - a lot of common sense, but good summary ...

March 25, 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links 22-9

Blue Lobster Some longer reads and good podcasts about leading and structuring teams. And mostly amusing random links. LeadershipThe SPACE of Developer Productivity - framework for thinking about developer productivity Refactor → Organisation - story of the reorganisation of BBC's website team When There’s Doubt, There’s No Doubt: How to Protect Culture and Eliminate Hiring Biases (with Nick Dimitrov, Founder of Bar Raiser) [Podcast] - good strategies for hiring ...

March 18, 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links 22-8

The war is on my mind, but not in my links. I enjoyed the podcast about bad bosses and the discussion about time in the last article. Leadership Bottlenecks of Scaleups - new blog series that looks very promising Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform - that is probably one problem of some platform teams: they don't treat their internal users as customers and the platform as a product. ...

March 11, 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian