Friday

Some cool insights into the engineering of GitHub and Slack and the sudo vulnerability. Short one this week. Management Meetup Apps Team’s Virtual Onsite (and why your team should have one too) - some nice ideas for your virtual onsites or offsites Fertile Mid-Stations - I like to work with people for a long time, but I also realise that all companies are just one station in the working life of most people The surprising root of resilience [Podcast] - spoiler: teams bound by experiences ...

Your friendly neighbourhood Friday links. Very much on the technology side this time, plus some extra skateboarding urbanism. Engineering Management The Tech Debt Playbook - how to manage technical debt Maximizing Developer Effectiveness - focused on feedback loops and organizational effectiveness Make Boring Plans - I am all for keeping everything boring Creating Security Decision Trees With Graphviz Graphviz is pretty underused for these kind of things. It is too easy to go for some WYSIWYG diagram tool, that then becomes a maintenance nightmare From Heartbreak, Through Resilience, To Equanimity - with Chad Dickerson & Jerry Colonna [Podcast] - I am looking into coaching at the moment. This is an interview with Chad Dickerson and his coach ...

I have been catching up with my podcasts. The environment section is probably here to stay. It will be one of the things of 2021 when people get bored of the virus. Management TBM 2/52: Start by Counting Things - how to start with metrics TBM 3/52: Help Your Team Find Its Own Way - definitely worth looking into why these companies prefer six weeks. We tried it too and it wasn’t a good fit at the time. ...

Good stuff on management and random stuff today. And a new section “Environment”, which is just depressing. Management Optimize Your Time with The Balanced Calendar - good tips on creating free space or focused time Meeting Rooms Are Now Free - but meetings are still expensive Summarized – Tech and business books I read in 2020 - Daniel Bartholomae’s book tips Recommended Engineering Management Books - good collection. I probably should write one of these lists at some point ...

A bit of a catch-up issue of the Friday Links. Full of urbanism, randomness, a few of 2020 reviews and the usual engineering management. Relatively few podcast were released over the holidays. I managed to catch up with my back-log (for a while). Management What are our core values and practices for building software? - cool summary about Thoughtsworks engineering values. I think they probably apply to a lot of companies ...