“I think the basic working model for people is that metrics measure the business, when in fact input metrics help you learn about the business.” https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/05/06/executive-dashboards/
“A good strategy, therefore, must identify the challenge to be overcome, and design a way to overcome it. To do that, the kernel of a good strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.” https://jlzych.com/2018/06/27/notes-from-good-strategy-bad-strategy/
“Each of these teams is broken through the way that the inside and outside views of the team are so different, and so any resolution will necessary also involve re-aligning these two viewpoints.”
The Three Tech Projects You Meet in Hell https://medium.com/@arthegall/the-three-tech-projects-you-meet-in-hell-2e529132ab3a
“What mechanisms could make the group’s success inevitable, despite the fallibility of whoever is currently serving as leader?” https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2022/10/08/do-you-need-a-strong-leader/
“The reality is much starker: a relatively small number of developers are responsible for writing and maintaining the code that millions of developers are using.” https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/musings
“In this case, rather than providing the product team with a roadmap of features and projects to build, the product team is instead given a set of problems to solve and desired outcomes to achieve.” https://www.svpg.com/changing-how-you-solve-problems/
“Don’t expect change overnight. While some of the DevOps Capabilities require technical implementations, it’s often a cultural change within the team that makes the most of them.” https://isthisit.nz/posts/2022/delivery-lead-time-in-practice/
“Recently, some notions that help to demystify work have gained popular acceptance. One of these is the simple observation that how people think that work is done and how work is actually done are two different things.”
https://safetydifferently.com/the-varieties-of-human-work/
“The answer lies in inattentional blindness, a condition that all people unknowingly exhibit every waking moment of their lives. As the name implies, it is the failure to see an object located on or near the sightline because it does not engage attention.” https://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/inattentionalblindness.html
“The advent of sophisticated computer technology has increased the problem…They become increasingly reliant on the technology and are less likely to notice an abnormal event.”
😎 “You no longer need to manage database capacity and you can now run graph applications without the risk of higher costs from over-provisioning or insufficient capacity from under-provisioning” https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-neptune-serverless-a-fully-managed-graph-database-that-adjusts-capacity-for-your-workloads/
Yep. The outcome is the objective, not the path. If the path traverses code, then recognize appropriately. If the path traverses discretion and reframing the problem so that no code need be written, then do the same.
“Instead emphasize with each team that you believe that their plans are hypotheses, and that you see their job as testing those hypotheses. Setup regular conversations…What have they learned? What have they disproven?” https://kellanem.com/notes/how-to-plan
