Urbanism

I have nearly caught up with my podcast backlog! This week’s post is short nonetheless. I enjoyed the podcast about daily scrum meetings and if you can read German, I also recommend the article about digital nomads. Leadership Ep - 20 - What’s wrong with the software engineering industry? feat. Nick Rogers (VP of Engineering at Wagestream) [Podcast] - interesting chat How to Run Successful Daily Scrum Meetings [Podcast] - many things I agree with, especially: doing daily meetings in Slack is not worth it ...

Happy new year! New year, new links! I am not going to take a break just because I am on funemployment at the moment. This week I loved the article about measuring engineering organisations and the podcast about Bauhaus. Leadership Measuring an engineering organization. - everything you need to start thinking about your metrics as engineering leader ...

“A collection of links on various topics, including overcoming disillusionment with the executive team, handling feedback, creating incentives for managers to grow, the pitfalls of using microservices, reflections on the state of Ruby and Rails, retaining high performing employees, closing a company for a week, transportation and urban planning in various cities around the world, tourism in Spain, a Netflix episode featuring David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the LastPass breach, and the rescue of abused beagles, as well as several collections of links on various topics.” ...

Catching up with my podcasts. The Heroko one was fun and so was the one about retrospectives. If you want to see something impossible, watch the making-of series by Danny McAskill. Leadership Radical Candor S4, Ep. 16: What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Crank Call From Kim) [Podcast] - goes off the topic a bit at the end :-) How Retrospectives, Public Channels, and Asynchronous Meetings Foster Inclusive & Culturally-Diverse Teams (with Alexandra Sunderland, Sr Engineering Manager at Fellow) [Podcast] - I am a big fan of retrospectives, even if you don’t do anything agile, do retrospectives ...

I was out for two weeks with holiday and then a Covid-19 episode. Today I enjoyed the long read about female British spies. Furthermore, some good articles about leadership and how Etsy is scaling. The whole remote work / return to the office discussion hasn’t been resolved either. Leadership Lessons from a 5x CTO: How to Retain Talent and Run Skip Level 1:1s Through Rapid Growth (with Rob Zuber, Chief Technology Officer at CircleCI) [Podcast] - clearly this was before they let many people go, but still good insights ...