New Year’s Resolution: limit the number of links in these posts. Catching up with everything since before Christmas. So much good stuff from BBC podcasts and The Guardian this time around. Leadership The Kool-Aid Factory - super useful and pretty site with play books about building teams and companies Embracing Change and Mimicking Chaos: Why Leaders Need to Cringe Fast and Early (with Hamza Kahn) [Podcast] - another great episode ...
I enjoyed the in depth look into Pablo Escobar’s hippos. Amazing what kind of wide ranging effect this has on the country. The whole Log4j incident was also fun to follow. Management How To Start A Book Club At Work - beginners guide Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team - lots of insights from different leaders and companies Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations - because of changes ...
I am a bit disillusioned with our response to the climate crisis and the pandemic. So I am focusing on other things like management, nostalgia and urbanism! Management Agility ≠ Speed - common misunderstanding well explained My experience with Re-organising a team - some good tips to keep in mind for the next time Please dogfood your software interview homework - this are some awful examples. Who would work on a test for a whole day? ...
The Great Resignation has definitely arrived in mainstream media. Lots of good podcasts this time, about career paths, engineering organisations, learning and weird Chinese cassette tape culture. Management Managing Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering? [Podcast] - interview with Camille Fournier going into details of platform teams Why all new managers want to quit - I feel you ...
Some long reads this week. The one about longtermism and “Great Attrition” are very interesting. Management Ratings as Incentives - I once worked at a place doing the 1-5 ratings, with additional rules that acted as weird incentives. I liked the idea, but it failed in reality. Experimenting with Focus Weeks and Mob Programming - I still haven’t tried mob programming, but then I never got into pair programming either ...