Managing Humans - Biting and Humorous Tales...
“Managing humans” means getting two things right: The very big and the very small. Michael Lopp offers plenty of advice for both.
A Managers Playbook
A pretty neat guide to basic management interactions. I found the sections on decision making and coaching especially worthwhile.
You Might Need a Coordinator After All...
In many agile adopting orgs I encountered there is a glaring fap between the theory of the self-organizing and directing team and the practice of someone (as in one person) doing all the organizing and directing. Nice to see Prahlad Yeri made a similar experience .
12 Steps to Become a Good Product Manager - Again
Discovered John Cutlefishs blog today, great material, loved A 12 step progrogram for recovering product managers.
A basic comparison of agile frameworks
Working in an agile context can feel “babylonian” at times. With everybody using the same terms, implying different things. So these charts might come in handy some time: Scrum VS Kanban VS Lean VS Extreme.
Peopleware - Productive Projects and Teams
A true trove of inspiration, open anywhere and find inspiration for everyday management work.
Let My People Go Surfing
Equal parts auto-biography and corporate manifesto this book provides an interesting glimpse at what made the worlds hippest company with an ecological conciousness.
You Only Know the Next Piece
Superstar biographies, genius interviews and parental anecdotes, might lead us to believe that success or failure in life depend only on us making the perfect choice at the perfect moment. Fortunately they are all wrong.
Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
There are many ways to learn about Scrum, I found this among the most entertaining.