Culture
Less Works 1 minutes read.
As always, something to start the weekend with a huge smile on your face. You can print for your meetings room, so you could point a finger at it next time someone suggests adding "just one more thing" to your product.
Read it later via
Instapaper.
Share
it via
Twitter
or
email.
The Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore 14 minutes read.
This post should be part of your company's onboarding reading list. Practices such as Design Review, Code Review and Pair Programming can and should be used to teach people in the team how to fight complexity. Share it with other engineers in the team, and ask yourself if you're doing enough to prevent complexity from sneaking in. Share it with your boss, and figure out together (on your 1:1?) what can be done to reduce existing complexity.
Read it later via
Instapaper.
Share
it via
Twitter
or
email.
Peer 1:1s 5 minutes read.
If you ever thought to explore ways to allow different individuals in the organization to give and receive feedback, this post offers an interesting approach. I like the fact that these 1:1s are not correlated to any compensation (as most Performance Reviews processes), and it can build trust faster between different people in the organization, if people leverage that for personal growth.
Read it later via
Instapaper.
Share
it via
Twitter
or
email.
We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation: Here’s Why 7 minutes read.
Every time I hear people say "there is no fun/innovation working at big companies" I point them to companies such as Etsy. Their focus on empathy is an interesting insight we can take and apply at our own place - "Understanding the work of your colleagues breeds empathy and it’s been great having a better understanding of what working at Etsy means to others."
Read it later via
Instapaper.
Share
it via
Twitter
or
email.