This week we finished the final main chapter, Chapter 6. We decided not to discuss Chapter 7 as it’s more of a reference. Section 6.7 — Creating Special Roles, Like SRE to TPMs SRE = site reliability engineer TPM =…
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An Elegant Puzzle – Part 13
This week we discussed sections 6.5 and 6.6. Section 6.5 — Performance Management Systems “A good [career] ladder allows individuals to accurately self-assess…” Geoff agreed 100% — you should be able to know where you are relatively to the positions…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 12
This week we discussed sections 6.3 and 6.4. Section 6.3 — Cold Sourcing: Hire Someone You Don’t Know We all found this part more technically dry; most of us hadn’t really done much work on hiring funnels. Hiring bias: “The…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 11
This week we discussed sections 6.1 and 6.2. Section 6.1: Roles over rocket ships, and why hypergrowth is a weak predictor of personal growth It’s been the norm in tech to stay someplace for two years and move on. Jamie…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 10
This week we discussed sections 5.3 through the end of the chapter. Section 5.3 — Make your peers your first team The ingredients necessary for a team are awareness of each other’s work, evolution from character to person, refereeing defection,…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 9
This week we discussed sections 4.8 through 5.2. 4.8 — Setting organizational direction “If you don’t supply [direction] yourself, you’ll start to feel the pull of irrelevance: Maybe no one really cares what we do? What would happen if I…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 8
This week we discussed sections 4.4 through 4.7. 4.4 — Managing in the growth plates Houston thought the analogy of growth plates (where middle doesn’t grow) was interesting. Jameson said that management is not excluded from needing to grow as…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 7
This week we discussed sections 4.1 through 4.3. 4.1 — Work the policy, not the exceptions You reconcile consistency and change by working the policy, not the exceptions. Consistency is important, but if people don’t ask for change, then how…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 6
This week we discussed sections 3.12 through the end of the chapter. 3.12 — Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups Positive freedom — the freedom to pick things. Negative freedom — freedom from things happening to you. Jameson asked how…
An Elegant Puzzle – Part 5
This week we discussed sections 3.6 through 3.11. 3.6 — Migrations: The Sole Scalable Fix to Tech Debt Houston asked how often you get guarded time to pay down tech debt, as it depends on management buy-in. Jamie has used…