stafford williamsways-of-working
books#
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Beh, George Spafford
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M Goldratt & Jeff Cox
- Joy, Inc: How We Built a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan
- The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- Show your work by Austin Kleon
- Getting started with Agility: Essential Reading by Allen Holub
- The Great CEO Within
links#
- The Product Backlog and Technical Debt
- Kanban Classes of Service
- 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory
- Authority Matrix
- Is agile costing you too much
- Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant
- Nemawashi
- Ladder of Evidence
- Search is hard
- Revolutionary Software Development
- Shape Up - Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
- THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS
- Estimation is Evil
- Simplicity is An Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better
code#
- John Carmack on Functional Programming
- Scientists don’t want to write good code
- How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)
- How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two)
- The Soft Side of Peer Reviews
- Cognitive Load is what matters
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Hammer factory - Why I hate frameworks
templates & frameworks#
- Ways of Working canvas
- Product roadmap (The Tree of Up)
- Questions for our first 1:1
- Structured presentations
language#
- Gender Decoder
- Falsehoods programmers believe about names
- PlayStation’s ultimate list of gaming terms
lulz#
misc#
oss#
- colors & faker corrupted by dev
react-hooks-testing-librarymerges intoreact-testing-library- npm audit: Broken by Design by Dan Abramov
- Enzyme is dead
learn#
projects#
web#
mentoring / coaching#
- Coaching vs Mentoring vs Training
- How to be a great Mentee - Racheal Goodenough
- How to not suck at mentoring - Andrew Best
tools#
links#
Some really basic tables that help illustrate the benefit of reducing work in progress.
Every team is at a different stage of collaboration and so it’s difficult to find a team charter template that fits all teams - I like this atlassian one even if just for the Team Preferences and Communication Channels sections.
Jeff Sutherland on Acceptance Test Driven Development suggests that estimating tasks will slow you down.