Five for Friday – February 24, 2023
It’s a sunny and cold day here in the greater Seattle area – sort of that simultaneous reminder that spring is on the way, but it’s definitely still winter. Here are some things I found/noticed/read this week.
- I’m on the Semaphore podcast! We recorded this a few months back, but I’m glad to see this released even though I don’t remember what I said. I should have sent them an updated photo – the beard in that photo is sooo 2018.
- Someone (I think) on the Modern Testing slack group shared this article about what ails google, and how to fix it. It’s tough for a company to grow and stick to their core values.
- While the DORA metrics were launched into mainstream via Accelerate (Forsgren et al), the SPACE metrics (which are arguably more valuable) are still in the play-with-it phase. Thus, every time I see a practical and pragamatic adoption / use of the SPACE metrics, I’m going to read about it and link to it.
- This article on building 10x teams contains a huge number of articles and graphics I refer to and teach constantly (I’ve sketched the the autonomous alignment quadrant at least a dozen times in the last year…and will likely keep up that pace). Overall, great stuff to consider.
- I’m good at what I do, because people run stuff in the cloud. As a healthy reminder to many of you, you don’t have to run your stuff in the cloud.
That’s all the fun – at least as far as links go, for this week. Be sure to check out angryweasel.substack.com (new posts (almost) every Saturday). More links in a week.