Content Drop for week ending 7/10/2022
Podcasts
Product thinking - The Pivot Series, Part 1: Embracing The Unknown with Colleen Johnson - First of the Pivot series about how companies changed how they operated during the pandemic. This episode covers Scatterspoke and how they changed their model of being a retrospective tool to sharing some of that data with folks.
No Nonsense Agile Podcast - Agile and Flow- More good talk about dealing with change and flow. Also talks about Monotasking which is something I need to dive a bit deeper into.
Mob Mentality Show - Rethinking Management and Nurturing Change with Esther Derby - fantastic interview with Esther Derby on leadership. I passed a person wearing a shirt that said "Eat, Drink, Esther" when listening to this episode which was a weird bit of kismet.
Blog Posts
Waste Snake - How to identify and eliminate waste in your process. Great exercise for teams that are struggling with lots of frequent low value and something I am going to try to experiment with
My former colleague Chris Conlin put together this article on how to properly take feedback and new ideas to the team.
Here are some good tips around getting your team to do pull requests faster. Every team that does pull requests (PRs) seems to go through PR hell at some point and they usually crib together some process for making this process suck less. I do wish more developers were opening to pairing/mobile/ensemble programming as it makes the entire process a lot easier but there are some other solid tips in here.
