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Bad idea: Developer experience is equivalent to productivity

The SPACE paper, referencing an earlier Microsoft paper, argues for the importance of considering perceived productivity. This is…

Jan 9

“Productivity numbers are up! “I hate my life” scores are also up but I’m sure that’s fine…”

Jan 9

4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND Exit

Kent Beck’s 2016 3X model (Explore, Expand, Extract) is essentially a different way of expressing Theodore Levitt’s 1965 product life…

Jan 1

4X — Explore, Expand, Extract AND Exit

Jan 1

Bad idea: You can’t measure productivity

The key points from Martin Fowler’s 2003 article “Cannot Measure Productivity”:

Dec 14, 2024

“We’ve improved deployment frequency and lead time for change.” “Those sound like great improvements but what about the frequency and lead time for impact?”

Dec 14, 2024

The books I liked in 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Bad ideas about software product development productivity

I’m collecting bad ideas about software product development productivity:

Dec 12, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

There are only 5 ways to improve productivity

UPDATE: Replace “effort” with “cost” to account for the option to use lower cost sources of effort. Hat tip to Joe Troderman.

Nov 24, 2024

Nov 24, 2024

DIY leadership development: Develop leadership skills

Learn the skills to be a competent leader.

Sep 14, 2024

Mapping of leadership skill groups across The Art of Action, Strength Finder 2.0, and For Your Improvement. Directing maps to Strategic Thinking maps to Thought. Leading maps to Influencing and Relationship Building maps to People and Self. Managing maps to Executing maps to Results.

Sep 14, 2024

Company songs, generative AI, and product life cycles

A while ago, I was at the Grainger office in Jacksonville, and I noticed a wall showing a timeline of key historical events at Grainger. I…

Aug 24, 2024

Company songs, generative AI, and product life cycles

Aug 24, 2024

DIY leadership development: Role model company values

Become a role model for the desired values of the company.

Jul 14, 2024

Company values: X, Y, Z. Left branch: leaders are inconsistent with values, people are annoyed with hypocrisy, people are disengaged. Right branch: leaders are consistent with values, people believe values are real, people are engaged.

Jul 14, 2024

DIY leadership development: Build self-awareness

Γνῶθι σεαυτόν

Jun 23, 2024

Cause effect diagram: build self-awareness to understand your motivations and understand your preferred working styles; understand your motivations, understand your preferred working styles and communicate your preferred working styles to improve your interactions with others.

Jun 23, 2024

Jason Yip

Jason Yip

Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl

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