Exploring a few communication and operation modes in product companies
Another excerpt from a chat with Ibra & Victor.
Excerpts from the devops book, Accelerate
More heuristics to help you figure out if your problem is complicated, or complex.
Excerpt from a chat with Ibra & Vic
It's one thing to write code that does the thing. It's another to write code that tells the reader what it's doing
A few things I’ve learnt about handling incidents.
Some heuristics on how to pick the highest value thing to work on when embedded in a product team.
discusses the concepts of flow efficiency and resource efficiency and emphasizes the importance of optimizing flow to achieve real efficiency.
The title here is misleading, because I’m here to make a case for not assigning your team to full capacity.
We’ll look at this from two perspectives, the pull request author, and the reviewer
Shared room, different tasks
Some long form content
An asynchronous pair programming method
Communicating our understanding of the problem and Forecasting completion of the solution
If a task is big enough, multiple small & focused PR's are a solid way to approach it
Some musings & observations on refactoring
Putting together all related resources around this topic.
Feels weird to tag this one under productivity, lol.
Steps I take to preserve and make time for flow state
An alternative or add on to time management
Some things to think about when considering feature flags
Heuristics, mental models, practical, immersion
Optimising Mean Time To Recovery is more important than trying to minimise Mean Time Between Failures.
highlights, quotes, & other interesting bits from Engineering Management For The Rest of Us
I often open Pull Requests immediately when I start on a task.
How WIP limits can help your team ship software faster, & more effectively
How can this theory can be a helpful heuristic for effective team design
highlights, quotes, & other interesting bits from Team Topologies
Thoughtworks' James Lewis shares his experience & research on Team Topologies, software architecture, & complexity science
A case study of ING bank and their experiments with team topologies
Notes from an insightful talk by Dan North
highlights, quotes, & other interesting bits from Accelerate
My values, and how that translates to my preferred ways of working & communicating
Various lessons and clippings from Martin Fowler.