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Posts from Awesome Folks #21
Emily Webber
July 29, 2022
Hello,
I am a little late with today's posts; I am busy packing up my house and got a bit sidetracked. Where does all the stuff come from?
This week has lots of posts about people and culture and some added extras. Check out the great post office scandal, which has had me hooked this week, a very human story about big tech going wrong and the desire to save face from the organisations that rolled it out.
Happy reading and happy Friday.
Emily
People and culture
Inclusive Hiring to Build Better Teams … Period
By Daisy Auger-Domínguez
"This excerpt from Inclusion Revolution, a new book by Daisy Auger-Domínguez, provides a practical roadmap for making meaningful progress in workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. People have a hard time hiring people outside of their comfort zone."
Collaborating in an exhausted world
By María Mayor
"For the past year at @amitycic we have been facilitating a different community group most evenings. These are groups that get together to take climate action and co-create ways to improve the environment where they live."
Three strategies for building trust with your engineering teams
By Vaidehi Joshi
"On the flip side, the teams that were absent in all of those things were the ones that were the ones that lacked trust. Trust is the backdrop of successful teams, and a cornerstone of effective management."
Improvement Canvas – Free Download
By Mia Kolmodin
"What do you usually say is the difference between those who succeed and those who don’t? Those who succeed always try something new when “failing” using the learnings, and they always take smaller steps moving in their wanted direction to get to their next goal on the way."
Organisations and systems
Quality Last Is a Stupid Strategy
By Ryan Latta
"Today I’m going to rant a little bit because I’m over-caffeinated, and a few things have come up all related to quality and testing. I recently talked with an engineering manager who mentioned that the team’s velocity was too low."
How to scale decision-making in your organization with Circles
By Bernhard Schandl
"You need to be able to make good decisions quickly, and enable your team to turn decision outcomes into action. But often, the larger an organization becomes, the fewer decisions are actually made, and the harder it gets to turn decisions into action."
Tools and approaches for teams
How to transform online meetings into memorable experiences using Liberating Structures
By Dan Young
"Divergence is where everyone opens up to new possibilities — the intake of breath. Emergence is also known as the ‘groan zone’. You may not have named this before, but you will have felt it."
32/52: Telephone Game!
By John Cutler
"This week I am going to share Telephone Game diagrams! Recognize any?"
Why I don’t write User Stories… and write Job Stories instead
By Bryce York
"The job story template says: “when I , I want to so I can .” So job stories focus on thinking about the context in which the user wants something to happen."
Other things
BBC Sounds - The Great Post Office Trial
From BBC Sounds
A podcast series of a story from 2020/21 that's covers 10 years of a scandal. It really underlines that digital solutions always impact on real people and what happens when "trust in computers" goes very wrong.
Emily Webber - A blog about agile, lean, people and things
I’ve given my blog a new theme and it looks great, take a look and enjoy my blog about agile, lean, people and things
