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Posts from Awesome Folks #1
Emily Webber
March 11, 2022
Every week, Emily shares links on the Tacit Twitter account to interesting posts. They are all collected here they are in a digest, loosely grouped into themes to make them a little easier to navigate.
Links collected on @hellotacit by @ewebber
People and culture
Links relating to people, the most important part of our organisations. This week we have posts on burn out, trust, distributed working and engineering management. You need to sign up to LeadDev to view some posts, it’s free and they have great content.
Back in the 1950s/1960s, Douglas McGregor created the idea of Theory X vs Theory Y for workforce motivation. Theory X assumes workers are selfish, lazy, dumb, and work only for their paycheck…
In this article, we’ll explore the product management best practices that turn into pitfalls in our culture of burnout, plus how we can better engage these skills to sustain our careers.
Psychological safety—the belief that it is safe to speak up—is vital amid uncertainty, but its relationship to feeling heard is not well understood.
How to recruit a manager who can lead your team to success
Coaching tools and approaches for remote-first companies
A guide to transitioning from senior engineer to manager
Organisations and systems
Links relating to our organisations as systems that people work within. This week we have some thoughts on the fallacy of the org chart, tech debt and and what limits does to measures.
The traditional organization chart is as outdated as the dial-up modem. Or maybe a fax machine. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. It's too rigid, reinforces hierarchy, and doesn't support the complexities of today's work environment. Sadly, 99.9% of companies still use it today. But here's
“When you put a limit on a measure, if that measure relates to efficiency, the limit will be used as a target.”
Accumulation of tech debt; experiments and shortcuts are core components
Setting and measuring goals
Links relating to creating clarity around work, so people can get on and do it. This week we have a heavy bias on OKRs, as well as appropriate measures and data ethics.
Powerful ideas, imperfectly measured, are more useful than perfect measures for not-so-powerful ideas. Example: The goal of your business is to transform how other companies do business. "That happens outside our product, we can't measure it," says the data scientist. But
Roisi Proven's last episode was one of our most popular, so we had to have her back for a return chat! She updates us on what she's learned about data ethics and unbiased data
There is a concept I call drift. Drift means that a process has drifted away from the original framing. It happened to Agile. What started as a simple idea that people should work collaboratively and…
There are some products that have to be shipped as one big release. This article explains how to make big bang releases work with OKRs.
Tools and approaches for teams
Links relating to team working and tools that help them do it better. This week we have a team collaboration game, help with story splitting and uncovering hidden work.
Cross functional teams are complete in expertise but not necessarily collaborative. Sometimes team members hold on to their expertise too much and the team does…
I've noticed that for several years now, one of the most frequently asked questions in agile forums deals with the splitting of stories. W...
A team researched the history of a single (relatively small initiative). Surprise! None of the tools in their company captured what actually happened, and who was involved (except for that tiny bit at the end, and their calendars). They couldn’t believe it first.
Multidisciplinary teams contain all the skills needed to run and continually improve digital products and services
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