Business
1,528 items in 12 lists
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Team Objectives – Overview svpg.com
Why OKRs might not work at your company: 1. You're still using feature teams instead of product teams; 2. Mixed-up manager and individual objectives; 3. Leadership opting-out of active management.
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Good sleep, good learning, good life supermemo.guru
An e-book-sized synthesis on sleep research “with a view to practical applications, esp. in people who need top-quality sleep for their learning or creative achievements.”
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How Complex Systems Fail stuff.mit.edu
“Short treatise on the nature of failure; how failure is evaluated; how failure is attributed to proximate cause; and the resulting new understanding of patient safety”.
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The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free steveblank.com
Company stopped providing free soda. The engineers were very upset, but it was just soda and they could afford it. But really it wasn't soda. Soda was the canary in the coal mine, triggering an exodus of its best engineers.
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The Most Important Performance Management Rule For Software Engineers staysaasy.com
“Merge code every week. That's what you should be saying to your new Software Engineering hire.”
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Optimize Onboarding staysaasy.com
“Your organization has painfully slow onboarding. Endless HR videos, slow security processes, a mountain of fragile technology setup - these all make for a shitty and counterproductive start at a company. Optimize your onboarding to get people doing what you hired them to do.”
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Why It's Easier to Manage 4 People Than It Is to Manage 1 Person staysaasy.com
“Avoid at all costs the combination of: new manager, 1 report, report is new-to-industry, manager is not a subject-matter expert.”
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The Intangible Skills You Can't Interview For staysaasy.com
“1) Cut-Through on Crappy Tasks; 2) Knowing How to Finish; 3) Knowing How to Start; 4) Giving (And Receiving) Diagonal Feedback; 5) Harnessing the Value of Intangibles.”
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Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People staysaasy.com
“The second you became their manager you forfeited the right to joke around in any capacity about their employment at the company.”
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StaffEng staffeng.com
Once you've reached the Senior Software Engineer level, you're at the crossroad. Either you pursue engineering management or continue down the path of technical excellence to become a Staff Engineer. This isa collection of guides about the later position.
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering stackoverflow.blog
“Start by accepting that change is inevitable. (…) As a consequence of this, software is never finished, only abandoned. (…) This means that no software product is ever exactly, perfectly satisfactory.”
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Avoiding burnout as an ambitious developer stackoverflow.blog
“Be willing to say no; Know what you don't want; Use your energy level realistically; Be kind to your future self”.
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Burnout From an Organizational Perspective ssir.org
“Extensive research by the military on sustainable performance in stressful conditions teaches that leaders should become champions of health, rather than taskmasters.” Describe the symptoms of toxic organizations and how managers can protect their teams from systemic burnout.
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Write an Excellent Programming Blog speakerdeck.com
Tips on structure and style to produce great blog posts.
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Netflix Culture slideshare.net
“The actual company values, as opposed to the nice-sounding values, are shown by who gets rewarded, promoted, or let go.”
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How Slack Harms Projects silasreinagel.com
“Promote a false sense of urgency, destroy focus, allow for bypassing project prioritization, strip away essential business context, encourage poorly thought-out communication”. To remediate this, see How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy article.
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It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning shermanonsoftware.com
Some kind of push backs shouldn't be interpreted as intentional sabotage, but as drowning people sinking the lifeboat in an attempt to save themselves.
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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research shape-of-code.com
“The NASA dataset contains 93 rows (that is not a typo, there is no power-of-ten missing), COCOMO 63 rows, Desharnais 81 rows, and (…) the China dataset contains 499 rows.”
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How I ship projects at big tech companies seangoedecke.com
“Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped.” That is the dark side of delivery, in which you optimize for visibility by upper-management for the next…
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What Medieval People Got Right About Learning scotthyoung.com
“Why apprenticeships beat classrooms”.
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The impact of the 'open' workspace on human collaboration sci-hub.st
Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration.
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Algorithm for writing a scientific manuscript sci-hub.st
A process to guide the preparation and refinement of manuscripts.
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Adaptation vs adaptability sci-hub.st
There is a spectrum between perfect efficiency and being completely flexible. This article explores ecosystems and the flows of material and energy between different organisms within the ecosystem. (hinted by HN comment)
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The SAFe Delusion safedelusion.com
Curated review of facts, evidence, and opinions from relevant sources without vested interests, to help decision-makers make informed choices and get better results.
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On being an Engineering Manager ruiper.es
Some of these points needs nuance, but others are a good taste of things to come for first-time managers.
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On Bullshit ruby.fgcu.edu
This HN comment perfectly describes the concept. “Unlike lying/fraud, where falsehood is instrumental, Frankfurt defined bullshit as potentially false speech where the truth simply wasn't important. Bullshit is characterized by giving the surface appearance of confidence…
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Developer Roadmaps roadmap.sh
💸 Very high-level guides and paths to learn different practice and tools.
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The Gervais Principle ribbonfarm.com
A cynical, bleak, but still fascinating take on the management ladder, based on The Office.
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Identify what makes a great manager rework.withgoogle.com
Google tried to prove managers don't matter. Instead, it discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones.
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Hiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework review.firstround.com
“How do I hire a VP of Engineering? After more than 20 years, eight companies, and thousands of hires, I'm starting to suspect this may be the wrong question. A better one is, What is a VP of Engineering?”
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Don't (guess)timate your projects, forecast with confidence reaktor.com
“The problem with spending a lot of time on estimating is that it can feel useful, but often is so inaccurate that it hardly yields much value to the business.” The best we can do is measure and forecast.
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US spy manual has tips for coping with toxic bosses qz.com
Derived from WWII-era Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a classic read to spot harassing and demoralizing behaviors.
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How to have great meetings, according to 200 scientific studies qz.com
A roadmap for getting meetings right.
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A quote quoteinvestigator.com
to tame the one above.
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The Evolution of Management: Transitioning up the ladder queue.acm.org
Describe the path and expectations at each management level.
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A Conversation with Werner Vogels, Learning from the Amazon technology platform queue.acm.org
Scaling systems is not only a technical challenge. It has to be about teams and culture too. One lesson learned from the early days of AWS: “Giving developers operational responsibilities has greatly enhanced the quality of the services, both from a customer and a technology…
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Psychology Today: How Programmers Can Avoid Burnout psychologytoday.com
“Veteran software developers often recommend to: 1. Work at a place where you can grow; 2. Build transferable skills; 3. Have creative outlets and create a space to focus on yourself, switch off, and relax; 4. Of course, there's always the nuclear option: make your money and…
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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry prog21.dadgum.com
“When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity.”
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The Baldwin Formula for scientific writing: writing papers and reviews people.clas.ufl.edu
“The most efficient way to write scientific papers is to write while you are still conducting experiments”.
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How to Write a Technical Paper pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Serves as a guideline on how to write a good technical paper, in the form of a typical journal publication.
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Goodbye, Clean Code overreacted.io
“My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean! (…) I see now that my 'refactoring' was a disaster in two ways: I didn't talk to the person who wrote it; My code traded the…
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7 Rules of Power openlibrary.org
By Jeffery Pfeffer. Tells you how to play office politics if success in the workplace is the only thing you care about.
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently openlibrary.org
We learn in this book that employee happiness was not correlated to company success. A comment on HN details the questions that were highly correlated to company success.
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W. Edwards Deming openlibrary.org
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The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey openlibrary.org
The author use a parable in which problems are monkeys. Unexperienced managers let monkeys being transferred to them, accumulates on their back and compounds. From this, the book teach you how to change from taking on responsibilities to delegating them so you don't become a…
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Living with Complexity, by Donald A. Norman openlibrary.org
In which we learn that, based on Tesler's law of the conservation of complexity, “the total complexity of a system is a constant: as you make the person's interaction simpler, the hidden complexity behind the scenes increases. Make one part of the system simpler, said Tesler…
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The 48 Laws of Power openlibrary.org
By Robert Greene. Can teach you how to cover your ass and be effective in a highly political org.
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Essays on object-oriented software engineering openlibrary.org
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Making Nice or Faking Nice? Exploring Supervisors' Two-Faced Response to their Past Abusive Behavior onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.st
“It behooves organizations that want to develop highly authentic supervisors or organizational climates to seek to hire supervisors that are lower (or at least not higher) on symbolized moral identity.”
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Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft onezero.medium.com
After 3 decades in a deeply flawed company, the author comes to a humble conclusion: leaders should embodies the value of their employees. Not the other way around. “Changes at the top — not speeches, training or hashtags — make the most cultural impact. If you want real and…
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