Five for Friday – August 16, 2019

Here we go again…

  • If you’re a regular reader of these Friday links, you may wonder how I keep track of things I want to share. I use Pocket to save things I like. Without it, I’d have to reboot the series as One for Wednesday.
  • Steve Denning is back in FfF with an article on Understanding The Agile Mindset
  • I love static analysis tools, and here’s a story on static analysis at Instagram (which I learned is almost entirely Python on the back end)
  • A lot of my job is coaching, so I liked this article on bad ways to be a coach.
  • Finally, for the stats lovers, check out this site full of sports team stats. I only look at the soccer stats, but you may find others interesting.

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