Dakou Tapes 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. ManagementManaging Platform Teams: How to Build and Structure Platform Engineering? [Podcast] - interview with Camille Fournier going into details of platform teams ...
Scrabble tilesSome 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 ...
Lego Compact Cassette Catching up and dreaming of a four day work week. ManagementThe Sabotage List - nice idea to collect the stuff you are probably not going to do for reasons Always do Extra - if you have slack, do extra, not more of the same How to Understand the Power Structure [Comic] - funny :-) ...
stairway to nowhere Too many articles about management today! I got pulled into a rabbit hole about Thomasson Hyperart this week, which was fun. ManagementThe Skill of Org Design - great long read about organisation design How to safely think in systems - "When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right" ...
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