Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “management”

The Tyranny of Structurelessness - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness

Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – charity.wtf

charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/

Be a thermostat, not a thermometer | Lara Hogan

larahogan.me/blog/be-a-thermostat-not-a-thermometer/

As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. It’s usually not even something we do consciously; we just see someone using a different tone of voice or shifting their body language, and something deep in our brain notices it.

Engineer’s guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt

newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/engineers-guide-to-convincing-your

Your company needs Junior devs

softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniors

Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate

Words on Founder Mode – Rands in Repose

randsinrepose.com/archives/words-on-founder-mode/

Graham hints at some of the attributes of Founder Mode but mostly says it’s not a well-defined. It is. Founder Mode is the culture of a company and a culture is defined by the character of the founders. Here are the values I’ve discovered over and over again working with these humans:

Plane - The open source project management tool

plane.so/

Open-source project management tool to manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind.

Get It Done

boz.com/articles/get-it-done

Too often people do the best they can with what they have when they should instead get it done

How to be a -10x Engineer

taylor.town/-10x

Delegating projects, not tasks

world.hey.com/jason/delegating-projects-not-tasks-f36cb8bc

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened

blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day

How to plan? | Kellan Elliott-McCrea

kellanem.com/notes/how-to-plan

Let’s also set aside the question of trade-offs for the moment, except to say, trade-offs are the very heart of engineering and engineering leadership. Software as a medium is so malleable that functionally anything can be made to work. Any language, architecture, approach, style, process, etc can be made to work given sufficient effort. Meaning we find ourselves not asked to choose between right and wrong answers, but between trade-offs.

Product Management Software

prodpad.com/

The #1 Product Management Platform. Roadmap, idea, and feedback management that ties actions to outcomes. Clear the chaos and unite teams to create outstanding products.

Work Is Work | codahale.com

codahale.com//work-is-work/

In which returns diminish.

ZeroBanana – Senior Engineers are Living in the Future

zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/

Quality Is Systemic - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/

If your team is producing defective code, consider that it may not be because they all suck at their jobs. It’s probably because the environment isn’t allowing them to produce quality software.