How I Train New Hires Over and Over Again Without Losing My Mind

"Onboarding and training is a natural part of growth and success. Here I provide three key learnings that can help you do it more efficiently."

Why happiness at work really matters

"Are you happy at work? Are the people you work with happy? Should you even care as long as the job is getting done? It turns out you should — happy companies are more successful on a range of metrics — but creating a happy work environment is counterintuitive"

Modern Project Management for Product Managers

"One of the critical responsibilities of product managers is driving the overall execution of their product. Relentless execution will ultimately determine whether you'll be able to make your product"

Building and Motivating Engineering Teams

"I have agreed to give a guest lecture for a class at Yale, and they’ve asked me to speak about “building and motivating engineering teams” from the perspective of a smaller startup"

Agile Metrics—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

"Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile, or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. To address the team level, qualitative agile metrics typically work better than quantitative metrics"

Good Speed: 6 ways to build product faster

"I recently wrote about why Speed is not the same as Velocity. Speed is just moving fast, whereas velocity is moving fast in the right direction"

Why you need a data pipeline and which one you should choose

"The proliferation of self service SaaS apps creates data fragmentation across organizations. As a result, analytics and reporting becomes a nightmare"

Developers’ side projects

"Pretty much 100% of developers working for other people end up signing some kind of “proprietary invention agreement,” but almost all of them misunderstand what’s going on with that agreement. Most developers think that the work they do at work belongs to their employer, but anything they work on at home or on their own time is theirs. This is wrong enough to be dangerous."

AWS launches Glue service for running automated ETL jobs

"At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of AWS Glue, a tool for automatically running jobs for cleaning up data from multiple sources and getting it all ready for analysis in other tools, like business intelligence (BI) software."

Some Tools For Go That You Might Not Know Yet

"Here are a few useful tools that you might not have in your toolbox yet: interfacer, zb, realize, and binstale. They have nothing in common except that each of them solves a particular problem well."

Activities from Retromat

The weekly retro activity comes from Retromat by Corinna Baldauf. Do your team a favour and pick up a copy right here!