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Posts from Awesome Folks #5
Emily Webber
April 08, 2022
There is are so many awesome people sharing posts around the web, I like to collect and share the ones I find most interesting on the Tacit Twitter account (@hellotacit), then collect them in a digest each week.
Enjoy and let me know if there are bloggers I should be reading.
Emily
People and culture
Links relating to people, the most important part of our organisations.
Bottleneck #02: Talent
Constrained by talent and struggling to attract top technologists
Encouraging healthy conflict in a remote world
Arguing virtually lacks resolution. Here’s what we can do about it.
Of Software Designers & Broken Combs
A concept introduced by Jared Spool, The broken comb as a model to describe people's skills and capabilities.
Being available: The secret to great leadership
Often when we ask this question we hear the same answers: having a great vision of the future; disagreeing and committing; delegating; or some variation of the Amazon leadership principles. None of these tips are wrong, necessarily.
Organisations and systems
Links relating to our organisations as systems that people work within.
A community and a practice are not the same, but they are brilliant together
I have worked with Communities of Practice in organisational settings for several years. One recent trend I have seen is the use of the word community when people are talking about the more formal construct of a practice, this post describes the difference.
10 Elements Of A Self-Managing Company
An overview of an approach to creating people-first organisations from Corporate Rebels. Make sure to watch the video along with the blog post.
Finding the Pattern
Join Esther Derby, author of 7 Rules for Positive Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results for Change by Attraction--because you don't have to push, prod, persuade or punish people to create change in your organization.
It's tooooo much!
What world problem is overwhelming you now? What baby step can you take to make even a tiny difference in your small part of this world?
What Le Corbusier got right about office space
A century ago, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for factory workers near Bordeaux. The resulting development, Cité Frugès de Pessac, was much as one might expect: brightly hued blocks of pure modernism.
Setting and measuring goals
Links relating to creating clarity around work, so people can get on and do it.
SUNDAY REWIND: Product managers
In this rewind, a look at how MTP co-founder Martin Eriksson disagrees strongly with this thinking. Ben Horowitz’s much-repeated phrase describes product managers as the CEOs of their products.
How Many OKRs is Enough?
An organization with less than 30 employees working towards 15 outcomes at any given time is a clear indication of “too many OKRs.”
Giles Turnbull on the Leanpub podcast
Talking about the agile comms handbook on Leanpub’s own show about authors and publishing.
Measuring the right North Star metric
“What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so.” (V. F. Ridgway 1956) Ridgway clearly was onto something in 1956. Not everything that matters can be measured.
Tools and approaches for teams
Links relating to team working and tools that help them do it better.
Guiding principle: the basic unit of product development is the team, not the individual
Guiding principle in effective product development culture. Effective product development is not brilliant individuals working independently but rather people working together in teams and teams of teams.
What we've learned about working in the open
The Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA) is exploring the possibility of a land and property data platform. The team is developing a proof of concept and have committed themselves to working in the open, as part of experimenting with new ways of working.
Tech Manager Weekly by CTO Craft
Translating Tech Debt, Design Thinking, Tiger Hiring, Take-homes, Code Ownership, Breach Legal Costs: TMW #260 by CTO Craft | Revue
