Links 2018-11-19
On teams and their problems …
- The First Question to Ask When Building Teams – Is This Really a Team?, byStefan Lindbohm and Viktor Cessan
You might assume that if you put together a bunch of people and give them a goal, they’re a team. But that’s not how it works.
- SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban | the agile admin
So doing SRE can – and in many shops does – mean doing nothing new. You just call your existing ops team SRE and figure you’re done.
- Kobayashi Maru Management – Rands in Repose
A Kobayashi is a system failure because the usual means of getting important work done in a group of humans failed spectacularly.
- Your app is an onion: Why software projects spiral out of control
You start with the best of intentions. You hire a developer to build out your startup idea. But almost every week, it feels like the project needs tweaking. Features start creeping in, and the scope slowly expands. It’s as if the project has a life of its own, and is trying to destroy your life.
- Why Are Enterprises So Slow? – zwischenzugs
In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about.
- lenazun/working-remotely
Working remotely sounds great. We think we’ll save ourselves the commute and we’ll be able to flexibly weave in and out of work and home life. In reality, work takes a different shape when there is no office, and we’re all in different environments trying to connect to other humans. […] These are some of the things we’ve learned while working remotely