This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Culture AMP’s data and the one with Daniel Pink about regret. I am still browsing the Gallup State of Workplace survey, it is a lot of data. Leadership Build Week at Buffer: What It Is and How We’re Approaching It - we used to call that just hack week. Build week is definitely more inclusive. ...
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.” ...