Tag: teams

Run a better book club

Notes from a moderately-successful book club I ran for Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

Slowification

Notes on Creativity, Inc

What makes an effective product team?

Create psychological safety

Conway's Law

System boundaries tend to follow communication boundaries. Plan for that or pay in meetings and glue code.

Prioritize learning

Makes the case for engineering teams to invest in cultivating their collective knowledge. A team's shared understanding is one of its most valuable assets, and putting in extra effort to grow it pays dividends in better problem-solving and decision-making.

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seth

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May 11, 2021

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Brooks' law

Fred Brooks on why staffing up a late project often pushes the finish line out, not in.

Dunbar's number and engineering orgs

What Robin Dunbar's ~150 limit claims, and how it shows up in org design, on-call, and communication load.

Asynchronous remote work

A comprehensive guide to working remotely and asynchronously. Covers foundational principles like information availability and clear goals, practical team processes for meetings and work tracking, and the personal challenges of staying productive without real-time collaboration.

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seth

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Mar 19, 2020

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Ways to improve your team's code quality