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- It doesn't have to be crazy at work basecamp.com
Get a free pack of "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" stickers It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson In the UK,…
- Enterprise Design Sprints designbetter.co
- Ask HN: I just got my first team lead. What should I do? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Lucky me (29, Software Engineer from Berlin, Germany) recently got a new job as a Lead Architect for a startup. Now I’d say I’m not a bad engineer, but I’ve…
- How to fail as a new engineering manager – Noteworthy - The Journal Blog blog.usejournal.com · Archived on
In 8 easy steps “A barista pouring coffee into a mug that says ugh on it at Bar Nine” by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Congratulations - you’re a new manager! No,…
Noctiluxx/Getty Images When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been…
- Advice for a new executive | Lara Hogan larahogan.me
Advice for a new executive Originally posted Aug 30, 2018 When I was getting ready to join Kickstarter as VP of Engineering, Chad Dickerson (who was the CEO of…
Like many people my age in this industry (software development, if that was not clear), I remember how things worked before the internet and before agile.…
- Code Review Review is the Manager's Job hecate.co
In the classic management book High Output Management Andy Grove argues that "training is the manager’s job" because it’s the highest leverage activity a…
- DesignOps Handbook - DesignBetter.Co designbetter.co
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- Scrum disempowers developers | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Your Professional Growth Questionnaire – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
Do you know what time of year it is? It’s not performance season. Given I have no clue when you are reading this piece, how do I know it’s not performance…
What does tech management at Slack, HubSpot, Netflix, Etsy, Shopify, InVision, and more have in common? A lot, apparently! When we launched our first SoapBox…
- The Fast and Slow of Design markboulton.co.uk
Move fast, break things.Fail forward.Fail fast.Always be shipping. These idioms are all around us in the tech industry. Establishing themselves in small,…
- Goodhart's law - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
Goodhart's law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases…
Naming a task, bug or user story title seems like a small, inconsequential part of daily life on software projects but task titles have more impact than you…
- A Taxonomy of Tech Debt engineering.riotgames.com
Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the…
Jakub Domerecki/EyeEm/Getty Images A young friend recently remarked that the worst boss he ever had would provide him with feedback that always consisted of…
- Strong culture = less process – The Man in Blue themaninblue.com
Published on 14 th Mar, 2018 Previous post: Futurists & realists Cameron Adams is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, an online design platform…
- A Performance Question randsinrepose.com
At some point in your leadership career, you’ll need to care about performance management. My first bit of advice is the hardest: don’t ever let yourself think…
Over the years I created my fair share of product strategies, roadmaps and project gantts. I don’t do them anymore. This is what I used to do: This form of…
- How to Rands – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
Hi, welcome to the team. I’m so glad you are here at $COMPANY. It’s going to take a solid quarter to figure this place out. I understand the importance of first…
- Meeting Blur – Rands in Repose randsinrepose.com
Wednesday afternoon. 3:30. Tanya are I walking through a complex political scenario involving Product and Engineering. Nothing devious. Just complex. Many…
Communicate What You’ll Do Next That Teams Can Depend On Whenever I chat with a new design system team, I ask: So, what are you working on? Some teams muster…
- Robin Rendle › Inconsistencies and productivity robinrendle.com
I was chatting with my pal Jules Forrest earlier today—she happens to be one of the best designers and developers that I know—and she mentioned something really…
- How the Sausage Gets Made: The Hidden Work of Content alistapart.com
Illustration by Dougal MacPherson I won an Emmy for keeping a website free of dick pics. Officially, my award certificate says I was on a team that won a 2014…
- Products Over Projects martinfowler.com
Software projects are a popular way of funding and organizing software development. They organize work into temporary, build-only teams and are funded with…
- Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup randsinrepose.com
The quiet is my favorite attribute of a holiday break. My various Slacks are quiet, the house is quiet, and while takes three days of quiet, eventually my head…
Phil Hawksworth 21 Dec ember 2017 Published in Process You’ve chosen your frameworks and libraries. You’ve learned how to write code which satisfies the…
- Why Design Systems Fail 24ways.org
Una Kravets 14 Dec ember 2017 Published in Process Design systems are so hot right now, and for good reason. They promote a modular approach to building a…
Meeting Cards Designed by Stephen Walker at See Think Do because not everyone has a printer. Inspired by the original super cards from Collaboration Superpowers…
- Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture engineroom.ft.com
For the past 18 months I’ve been running a team at the Financial Times called the “Origami Team”. Our team mission is to: reduce the time the other development…
- A Meritocracy is a Trailing Indicator randsinrepose.com
When you are asked as a manager “What do I need to get to the next level?” I suggest the quality and completeness of your answer is directly correlated to your…
- The Cost Center Trap leanessays.com
In the 1960’s, IT was largely an in-house back-office function focused on process automation and cost reduction. Today, IT plays a significant strategic and…
- Views from the Top - ACM Queue queue.acm.org
The September/October issue of acmqueue is out now The Soft Side of Software Business/Management PDF October 31, 2017 Volume 15, issue 5 Views from the Top Try…
- The Endless Battle – Alan Cooper – Medium medium.com
Fighting a small grass fire in Marin County. User-centered versus designer-centered For the past 25 years, I’ve focused on the process of determining the form…
- Software architecture is failing – Alex Hudson alexhudson.com
I doubt there has ever been a time when software architecture was seen as a raging success. The “three-tier architecture” of the web has held up extremely well…
Last week my co-founder Rich Ziade wrote about what he’s learned and experienced over the last two years of running our product studio, Postlight . Which made…
A transcript of my presentation for Design Systems Coalition NYC Text version: On my flight here from San Francisco, I watched a biographical drama called, The…
What is strategy? Hooray! Everyone’s favorite question! Just kidding. In reality, this is a topic that quickly makes very smart people pull their hair out.…
Methodology It’s a lot like growing up, but not as awkward and embarrassing. Carbon , Lightning , Clarity , Polaris , Plasma , Build . Am I describing names of…
These are my notes from a session on what a tech lead needs to do and know when arriving on a new project. The wisdom came from @JimBarritt at Thoughtworks – I…
- Flaws In Scrum And Agile pandastrike.com
Pandas are not necessarily Agile. The Agile Manifesto was written in mid-February of 2001 , and it made the tech industry a better place. But it was written by…
We’re huge fans of design sprints, as popularised by Google Ventures. Andy Budd Today We’ve been running our own variation of design sprints—dubbed Springboard…
- whiteink — Tech lead: an introduction whiteink.com
As I start handing over my responsibilities at Hypothesis before I leave at the end of the month, Andrew suggested I try and write about the role of a “tech…
- Ten Minutes of Silence – Track Changes trackchanges.postlight.com
Ten Minutes of Silence – Track Changes
A Playbook for Working with Product Teams & Managers Your systems pitch got a green light. You’ve started designing, building, and documenting your library.…
In recent years innersource is a term that has cropped up more and more. As with all new things in technology, there has been a healthy mix of interest and…
Real-time chat apps are taking the business world by storm. But does faster communication really mean better communication? Illustration by @Chiachichao Three…
June 14, 2017 The Road to Burnout is Paved With Context Switching Since becoming a manager about a year ago, I’ve found that in any given week, I cycle through…
- bliki: Yagni martinfowler.com
Martin Fowler Yagni originally is an acronym that stands for "You Aren't Gonna Need It". It is a mantra from ExtremeProgramming that's often used generally in…