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Posts from Awesome Folks #2
Emily Webber
March 18, 2022
Every week, I share links on the Tacit Twitter account (@hellotacit) to posts I've found interesting this week. They are all collected here they are in a weekly digest, loosely grouped into themes to make them a little easier to navigate.
Happy Friday
Emily
People and culture
Links relating to people, the most important part of our organisations.
This week we have posts on psychological safety, facilitation, both in-person and online, and remote onboarding.
Findings from a study of 62 drug-development teams.
Three things about facilitation in person that I’d forgotten | by Cara Bermingham | Mar, 2022 | Medium — medium.com
TLDR; there are some things you can’t do when facilitating online and can take advantage of in person. I’ve shared these as a useful reminder if you’re getting out there again and need some tips. It…
Zoom, Miro and 500 people walk into a scroll bar, or how to organise an online interactive session for a large group of people.
A complete guide to onboarding new remote work employees and establishing processes that ensure success from day one. Learn more here!
Organisations and systems
Links relating to our organisations as systems that people work within.
This week we have my newly published Team Onion tools, a couple of posts from Corporate Rebels and an interview with Matt Mullenweg from Automattic.
Tools and templates We have created tools you can download, including a Miro board and supporting slides. If you are interested in getting these, please use the form below. Google slides A set of google slides will help you to introduce the concept of the Team Onion and the thinking behind it Miro board At […]
Why new ways of working? Why agile? Why self-organize? Why distribute decision-making? Why psychologically safe meetings? Why feedback, learning and experimentation cultures? Why not carry on as we are, top-down fashion? These are all good questions. The short answer is our organizations are complex
Around the year 1900, rats were a huge problem in Hanoi, Vietnam — known then as French Indochina. The colonial government came up with a new public policy to solve the problem: a citywide rat bounty program. In an effort to encourage the local entrepreneurial spirit, and to provide locals with a
CEO Matt Mullenweg on what it’s like to run Automattic— a collection of small companies that includes WordPress, Tumblr, Pocketcasts, Simplenote, and others
Setting and measuring goals
Links relating to creating clarity around work, so people can get on and do it.
This week we have storytelling, OKRs and some practical guides to the ongoing challenges with decision making in large groups.
Don’t convince. Inspire! - Lessons on storytelling by Petra Wille - Mind the Product — www.mindtheproduct.com
Product Leadership Coach Petra Wille provides tips and frameworks for product managers to improve their storytelling capabilities.
Product Management coach and author Tim Herbig took ProductTank Amsterdam through a hands-on workshop to provide insights on how teams can measure progress through outcome OKRs.
When decisions are made unilaterally, it tends to lead to false progress. You’re unlikely to have buy-in and you miss out on any perspective that the broader group might have had. When decisions are…
Imagine you need to set the future technical direction of a large Engineering organization. How do you capture the input from all of your Architect Engineers and Engineering Directors and quickly transform it into a visual format that would increase confidence in technical decisions? At Procore, we evolved the Fist
Tools and approaches for teams
Links relating to team working and tools that help them do it better.
This week we have my newly published Miro board icebreaker template, some tips on user stories, an interesting study on the impact of behaviour psychological safety, a hot topic from my Agile in the Ether community on what being on-call feels like and some thoughts on the basics for teams.
Reading Time: < 1 minute In a previous post, I wrote about Quick icebreakers for online meetings, (that don’t suck). In that post, I mentioned that I love using the Think Links game created by Edward de Bono to get people to think creatively and get the ice broken. This week I have turned the game into a Miro board to ...
What exactly is the difference between declarative user stories and imperative user stories and when should you use which? In this post, we'll delve into the advantages and disadvantages of both.
The effect of product owner behaviour on the observed versus perceived psychological safety of agile team members : an exploratory study.
Volunteering for on-call rotation can help the individual and the company. While taking on a new opportunity is exciting, it also comes with nerves.
I’m not a process freak, but I do believe teams should have their house in order. You can get by with very little process overhead. Too many teams are spinning in circles (or sprints). It often isn’t their fault, but still…the level of reactivity is so draining.
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Level Up - Dealing with information overloadIn a conversation this week, someone asked me how do I deal with the flood of information as a technical leader. Ther
