The paper about traffic safety messages is very surprising and interesting. If you don’t measure your change you might make the wrong assumptions. Leadership Visualizing Team Dependencies with a Team API - aka team agreement Founding Uber SRE. - I am pretty sure he is too modest. Interesting that hiring was so fast back then. Episode #4: Nothing In Nothing Out - I never seen a good use of Jira for metrics, maybe something to aim for at $NEXTJOB ...
Bicycle in front of old stone village I am switching to more off-line reading in the coming weeks. I still got a few interesting bits this week. A lot of good summary posts this week. I like the principles and koans one for example. Leadership Job Ads to Hire Software Engineers: My Advice - nothing new here, but good to have it in one place When your coaching questions freak someone out - I never even considered that. Maybe I have been lucky so far. ...
Short and quiet week. I liked the refresher on engineering directors and 1:1s. Leadership Mailbag: Resources for Engineering Directors. - helpful summary of previous articles and book pointers Episode #2: The First Taste of Metrics - continuation of the metrics blog post series One on One Meetings: The Only Guide Managers Need - I get more and more annoyed by the Lighthouse posts, but this one is a good overview ...
Catching up with podcast. The ones about Coaching Habit, Brian Kernighan and The Pedestrian are very good. Leadership Tackling bottlenecks at scale-ups [Podcast] - Podcast with a summary of the idea behind the content I shared recently. How To Do Less - about hard prioritization “First, you need to lower everybody’s expectations, ASAP.” Why greater autonomy is the future of software development - release of the Atlassian State of the Developer Report [PDF] ...
I have to confess that I have been still doom-scrolling Ukraine news.I still have some interesting links and even some fun reads. Leadership The dreaded reorg - “draft your communication plan” is always a good start Dimensions of Power - I didn’t realise companies do private/secret levels. How We’re Helping Our Remote Team Feel More Connected - a lot of common sense, but good summary Engineering An update on recent service disruptions - I love these posts, we should all learn from each others outages ...