Friday

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. ...

Engineering Management How to Structure Teams for Building Better Software Products - the book is on my long to-read list, but this post is already a good summary The 2020 Scrum Guide - references for “Pure(tm) Scrum” as not practised anywhere How Facebook kept the lights on when the world went remote [Webinar] - series of upcoming webinars about facebook going remote Creating & Achieving Goals [Podcast] - about setting clear goals and OKRs, probably one of the hardest subjects ...

A bit of a back-log again, lots of long reads about engineering, management and especially urbanism. Some good podcasts related to all of these too. The one from Mo Gawdat about happiness certainly made me think. Management The Art of the Awkward 1:1 - this is definitely one of my weak areas, my 1:1s are just not awkward enough most of the time Google’s initiative for more inclusive language in open source projects - check out the style guide for the details, lots of good pointers and some I might not have noticed myself. ...

Very light on links this week, maybe everybody is on holiday already. But I compensate with some nice podcasts references. Technology More online protection with the new VPN by Google One - a VPN from Google. I hope this is coming to Google Suite/Workspaces too. I also hope this kills off most of the shady VPN providers Bringing Personalized Search to Etsy - nice view inside an approach to personalised search ...

Urbanism bonanza today. Coronavirus has made people think more about their environment, walking and cycling. Also some good long read technology articles about how people approach big projects in various companies. Engineering Management Can agile pods help your team win big at scale? - agile in marketing. If you have a marketing of 500+ people it does seem to make sense. They Write the Right Stuff - from 1996, apparently a classic that I haven’t encountered before. About the software development for the Space Shuttle and how it was pretty much free of bugs ...