This week I suggest you look into the article about the passive listening at technology companies and how wrong it went and the coaching podcast about feedback. Management Priority guideline - sometimes I dream of a company with only one team, one product and one backlog … I am not sure this does even exist any more Onboarding to Flexport as a remote engineer - onboarding remotely is certainly different for everybody ...
The all fun pandemic section is back. This week I got flooded by good links. Lots of good stuff going on in cities all over the world and people in my bubble seem to be more aware of what we do to the environment. Engineering Management 4 Steps to Remote Success: Hiring, Decision Making, Collaborating and Managing with Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Buffer [Podcast] - lots of of good stuff about remote teams … which most of us still are ...
Back on the podcast train! Some interesting management stuff this week and a big bag of random puppies links. Management Influencing, Inspiring, & Failing? with Sophie Weston [Podcast] - great interview with a senior devops about management, agile and devops How to Tell Your Boss You’re Burned Out - please do Follow the Incentives, Waze Edition - Kent Beck started a new blog. Good points about incentives for people at companies. ...
I’m still behind with my podcast backlog and even my reading. Some fun engineering links this week. Make sure you check out Morph in random. Management 4-Day Work Weeks: Results From 2020 and Our Plan for 2021 - it sounds brilliant and probably work especially for creative work like programming. I am not quite sure how it would work for other jobs that are closely linked to time on seat. ...
No podcasts at all this week and very light on random links, which gives me the opportunity to post this pretty spring photo of our almond blossom getting going. Management Performance reviews should be unsurprising, fair, and motivating - nothing to add really. I wouldn’t say I am 100% there yet, but this should be the goal. The 2021 State of Remote Work - Buffer asks remote workers about remote work … 2.4% don’t like it and 3% wouldn’t recommended it. Possibly some selection bias. ...