Friday Links

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 ...

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 ...

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?” ...

I was off last Friday, so this is a double dose. Remote work is probably a topic which will stay with us for a while, but it seems people want to start a war about it. Maybe it is OK to like different things here? Management Building an Incident Management Response Team - do something like that or similar ...

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 ...