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 ...
Last one before the holidays, where I am going to post some other things. A little bit on productivity today as I look into the Zettelkasten hype. Leadership How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too - I am personally just looking forward to the holiday. Shared vision on organization - I think this is one of the hardest things to get right ...
Extra section for the mess that is happening with CentOS at the moment. Thanks Red Hat! Lots of good other stuff too. Engineering Management Weak and strong team concepts. - I am all for focus on teams, when you can. Good summary from Will Larson as usual. Working From Home During a Pandemic: A Tale of Two Cities - “In the end, it looks like we are doing more and for longer. Some people are loving WFH. Some hate it. Productivity is personal and work from home is personal.” ...
IFTTT is forgetting to push some of my links to Pocket, so I am figuring out a new way for my link posting work-flow. Today some great podcasts about leadership and also a course I really enjoy. Engineering Management Shared vision on product - must be nice to have more teams than products :-) Conway’s Law: Critical for Efficient Team Design in Tech - it might be my bubble, but recently I have been thinking a lot about Conway’s Law and the Reverse Conway Manoeuvre ...
It seems the whole world is slacking of for Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Focus on engineering management and urbanism with some good longer reads. Engineering Management Skills map for strategic growth - Great post about matching skills to requirements and to engage and coach your team. This is a great blog from a former colleague and I can’t believe I just discovered it now. Chief Notion Officer - I have been thinking about knowledge management in companies forever. I tried everything from wikis, to google drive to github. They tend to be write-only or succumb to bit rot very quickly. ...