Together with the amazing and we have created a statement about Psychological Safety in our tribe.
This is only meant as a reminder since what really matters is how we all behave.
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Working with psychological safety, technology and complexity to understand and influence systems of work.
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Seems that many people need to go back to school and relearn that the Soviet Union was not a victim in WW2 but in fact started the war by invading Poland in a joint attack with Nazi Germany
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Maybe it's time to replace the narrative of "effective versus efficient" with a narrative of "robust and resilient" #complexity
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In a healthy software team, no one is essential but everyone is useful.
The team members have T-shaped skills, so they can excel in their core responsibilities, but also perform other tasks efficiently.
There are no heroes, no blame game, only shared responsibilities.
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Inspiring work by Alia Rose Connor and Fiona Siseman who collaborated with the AC community at Spotify to develop a framework which help our coaches be more impactful, more recognised and continue to grow. I've used this framework directly and really apprβ¦
We control or micromanage others when we donβt trust ourselves.
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Who do you know in our network who has done some thinking about the impact of AI (tools like #chatGPT) on the culture of work not just the work itself?
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Dijkstra on abstraction (1972):
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
When did we lose this approach to building things?
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I wonder. As software development organisations grow feature teams become component teams. This is perhaps a side effect of ownership models. It certainly creates dependencies between teams and slows everything down.
Weak code ownership and continuous integration are antidotes.
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I'm looking forward to this conversation with Lech.
"If the train leaves every 5 minutes you don't care about a timetable. If it leaves every 2 days you want to know *exactly* when it leaves"
Great analogy from reflecting on planning, estimating and software delivery.
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π‘ Donβt confuse productivity with activity.
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This is an important thread and echoes some of the valuable lessons I got from
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Why I stopped being nice, so that I could be kind:
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In software development learning and doing are inextricably linked. One ignores the former at their own peril, yet it seems to happen all too commonly.
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Perhaps there would be nothing unusual about this if not for the curious happenstance of circumstances. After all, how often do you get BAD_POOL_CALLER on a door phone?!
I can confirm, there is no pool in that building.
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I have been chatting to a Marine about their experience with sleep. They said that indeed they were taught techniques to fall asleep in an instant. According to them the key underlying factor: sleep depravation. Not extreme, just enough to get you to sleep fast.
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The Military Method Recap:
1. Relax your entire face
2. Drop your shoulders and arms
3. Relax your chest and your stomach
4. Relax your legs
5. Clear your mind
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Side note: interestingly this was the best "authoritative source" of this news I could find.
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Really sad to hear #RIP #FredBrooks
His work was a major inspiration for so many of us.
The number of times I suggested I give someone more copies of the "Mythical Man Month" if they wanted to read it faster. It usually got the message across ;-)
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Sad news from @unccs β Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.
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Great advice not just for product managers but likely everyone in software development. Way too often this is missing.
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A friendly reminder to the Product Managers out there - block your calendars for thinking time.
We forget that #prodmgmt is a creative job at the end of the day.
It's not about completing rote tasks, but about deep thinking.
And for that you need time away from meetings.
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Useful explanation of what NATO is and what different reactions might signify, though much still unknown twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/
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If youβve never seen a UK visa rejection letter -the cruelty, the contempt, the humiliation-hereβs the one denying entrance to my mum BECAUSE Iβd said in my invitation letter that I was pregnant & needed help.
Iβm a privileged academic. Imagine what itβs like for other Albanians
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In a situation like this - it's not the _reality on the ground_ that drives policies but the leaders' _interpretation_ of reality. And that interpretation is very often biased by the assumptions leaders make about what made us successful in the past.
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There is much philosophical and systems thinking wisdom in lectures on Ukraine and this particular clip (watch just 40s) is a wonderful reflection on what drives policies in a system where the feedback loops (between layers) are broken:
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I'm not saying that what an individual can or cannot do doesn't matter. There are people who are not capable of doing what's needed. It's just that rarely they are "to blame". Software is a collaborative effort, it's the interaction and safety for all that tends to matter more.
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I'm still baffled by the "cult of individual performance" so common in tech organisation. It's everywhere from hiring, through "performance management" all the way to who is being let go.
It's also interesting that it tends to start "at the bottom", with the engineers.
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"Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame, often with the same outcome" - Neal Ford quote
talk on #refactoring #BuildStuffConf
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The follow up is:
Well, if you focus on predictability, then your ability to predict gets predictably worse.
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Replying to @minigamedev
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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
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Very good, very specific example how ubiquitous misinformation is these days and how convoluted the connections.
Great reminder that reliable journalism is becoming more scarce and requires support and investments.
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A short 
on how Russian intelligence launders fake news by using helpful EU "media".
A leading headline in Russian state media today is that "Poland plans to capture Western Ukraine and hold a referendum". The cited source is "the Belgian portal Modern Democracy".
on how Russian intelligence launders fake news by using helpful EU "media".
A leading headline in Russian state media today is that "Poland plans to capture Western Ukraine and hold a referendum". The cited source is "the Belgian portal Modern Democracy".Show this thread
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Here is a simple graphical depiction of what βtake back control of our bordersβ looks like, post-Brexit.
Donβt be angry at refugees seeking asylum. Be angry at the shysters who promised they could make everything magically better and have made everything demonstrably worse. ~AA
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#WhoIsagile book tip from : Mindset: The New Psychology of Success amzn.to/3p5RKB7 from Carol S. Dweck
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Today is the day to watch an extra episode of #WhoIsAgile while appreciating the effort that puts into this project. Happy Birthday Yves πππ
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