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 ...
Small wooden sailing boat Lots of good news and videos in Urbanism this week. I also enjoyed the podcast with Marshall Goldsmith. Leadership When there’s a Re-org [TikTok] - not funny! Screw SCRUM: Guide to Building a Truly Agile Organization [Podcast] - don’t actually screw scrum TBM 30/52: Why Don’t We Have a Strategy? - “The problem is that there are disincentives to thinking strategically.” A Customer-Focused Approach to Tooling - platform teams should treat their output as products with a focus on developers as customers ...
This week I have been looking at the good and bad of Agile Maturity Models. I haven’t formed an opinion yet. Good stuff in “Random”! Leadership Agile Maturity Models Guide to Building an Agile Maturity Model Here’s What’s Wrong with Maturity Models How Agile are you? Free Agile Maturity Assessment Building Your Own Agile Team Maturity Assessment The complete guide to Agile Maturity Assessment TBM 29B/52: Asking for Feedback and Pushback - “Experience matters, and that includes your ability to foster an environment friendly to everyone giving and receiving feedback within their comfort zone.” ...