youtube.com
Shaping in a Nutshell
· A short introduction for people curious about Shape Up. It covers the key principles from the book in under twenty minutes.00:00 Why people start questioning... · Shared by 6, including Ryan Singer
digma.ai
codebase complexity
8 min · · In this blog series, we ask prominent developers to share their horrifying stories and experiences in dealing with codebase complexity.
Dan Rockwell
Smart Help - 7 Questions to Ask Before Helping
· Successful leaders help people, but helping has disadvantages you might not see. · Shared by 5
revenuecat.com
How we communicate at RevenueCat
15+ min · · An adaptation of our internal guide with principles and best practices for effective remote and async communication.
boz.com
A Career Cold Start Algorithm
2 min · · Starting a new job can be stressful so I've developed an algorithm that has helped me get up to speed quickly. · Shared by 11, including Nancy
medium.com
Lessons learned from being a CTPO
3 min · · I recently completed my first role as a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). As the position becomes increasingly common, I wanted…
eventstore.com
Beginner's Guide to Event Sourcing
· A top-level introduction to the core principles for developers and software architects looking to build event-sourced systems.
microsoft.github.io
CSE Code-With Engineering Playbook
1 min · · An engineer working for a CSE project... Has responsibilities to their team – mentor, coach, and lead. Knows their playbook. Follows their playbook. Fixes their playbook if it is broken. If they find… · Shared by 8, including Mohamed Azazy
Will Larson
Inspection and the limits of trust.
6 min · · For a long time, the path to engineering manager began with a prolonged stint of technical leadership. Then you’d transition into an initial management role that balanced people and technical… · Shared by 166, including Ricardo Yasuda
Will Larson
How to safely think in systems.
3 min · · While there are a decent number of folks out there modeling systems, there’s a much larger group of folks who think of themselves as systems thinkers but utilize techniques like modeling rather… · Shared by 27, including mdy, Jens-Christian Fischer, Chris {he, they}
Will Larson
Hard to work with.
3 min · · Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy… · Shared by 63, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, mdy
Will Larson
Trunk and Branches Model for Scaling Infrastructure Organizations
12+ min · · This is an early version of a chapter for Infrastructure Engineering. Early on in your company’s lifetime, you’ll form the seed of your infrastructure organization: a small team of four to eight… · Shared by 23
Mike Cohn
Separate Estimating from Committing
1 min · · A fundamental and common problem in many organizations is that estimates and commitments are considered equivalent. A development team (agile or not) estimates that delivering a desired set of…
Scrum.org
Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum
6 min · · One of the most controversial updates to the 2011 Scrum Guide has been the removal of the term “commit” in favor of “forecast” in regards to the work selected for a Sprint. We used to say that the Development Team commits to which Product Backlog Items it will deliver by the end of the Sprint. Scrum now encourages the Development Team to forecast which Product Backlog Items it will deliver by the end of the Sprint. · Shared by 9, including Daniel Mezick, Stefan Weber
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Agile estimating in a Scrumban context
4 min · · Last night I went to the London Kanban Coaching Exchange to listen to a talk by Nader Talai titled "Does size matter". In his talk Nader told us a story of a team that gained trust with its...
Scrum.org
What Scrum Says About Estimates
5 min · · An estimate is our best guess for what can be achieved and by when. There are some situations when estimates are very important: