Agile Practical Techniques for Change (via Agile Amped) Fail: Overlay a new process without looking at why something isn’t working. What holds the current platform in place? Fail: See perceived problems, then take actions that don’t look at the interaction…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 46
Agile Creating the Right Conditions for Stable Teams (via Leading Agile) Don’t time-slice people across multiple teams. How do they figure out which team gets the work done and who gets starved? Solution: someone has to orchestrate their work. Prefer…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 3
This week we covered chapters 4 through 6 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. The topics discussed: Bubble Sort Quadratic time complexity…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 45
Agile How to Be Forever Employable (via Agile Amped) TL;DL — the guest is promoting his new book which tells you how to build your brand as a consultant. As a leader how do you enable the kind of culture…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 2
This week we covered chapters 2 and 3 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). The topics discussed: ordered arrays linear search binary search Big O notation classes of algorithms (constant, linear,…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 44
Communication Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts (via Harvard Business Review) “The authors present new research that suggests remote communication is most effective when teams coordinate to communicate in rapid-fire bursts, followed by periods of uninterrupted ‘deep work time’; when…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 1
Our book club is taking a hiatus from technical leadership books to delve into programming-related topics. We’re reading A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). Some of us learned data structures and algorithms…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 43
Agile How Agile Are You and How Agile Do You Want to Be? (via Leading Agile) There are different styles of work, and how you deal with those needs to change. The practices aren’t enough; you need to consider the…
Radical Candor – Part 18
This week we finished Radical Candor by discussing the bonus chapter (in the revised and updated edition of the book) entitled “A Radically Candid Performance Review.” “The biannual or annual review is performance management, which is different from developmental feedback!”…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 42
Agile The Art of Business Value Given my role as an Agile subject matter expert at Lirio, reading this book is part of my self-guided professional development. Value is everyone’s responsibility — not just the business, not just the product…