Leadership

AI generated art of modern, but run down office building Quiet week. The team assessment repository has a lot in it and I just started looking through it. Interesting papers about urbanism, but maybe I just say that because it confirms my bias. Leadership Multi-team Software Delivery Assessment - nice collection of useful team assessments, everything from team health, to delivery and security Imposter Syndrome [Comic] – it’s me Benefits of Pulse Surveys for Remote and Distributed Teams - a bit spammy. I used to be highly sceptical, but now I am a convert. If done right and with the right communication, these can be super helpful for all teams. ...

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 ...