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Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work
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Why T-shaped people? (2018)
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What Is a Wildcard Person?
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Why can’t we get a handle on this safety thing? (1998)
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Data behind high-functioning engineering organizations [pdf]
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Company, Team, Self
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Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
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Why don’t we have a strategy?
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When everything is important but nothing is getting done
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High performance individuals and teams (2020)
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We need someone who has done “it” before
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The Curse of Systems Thinkers
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Software development pushes us to get better as people
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Individuals Matter
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High Performance Organizations Reading List
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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
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Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
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Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating
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Prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing
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Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)
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Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses
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Limiting Work in Progress (2020)
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Designing Engineering Organizations
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Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant benefits
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Habits of High-Functioning Teams
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Work Is Work
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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
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Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)
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People Working in DevOps Should Read the Toyota Way
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Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” (2016)
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AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile
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Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business
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Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)
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Minimal Project Management
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Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)
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Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
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Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist
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Why Design Thinking Works
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On the Law of Diminishing Specialization
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Why do things go right?
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Why Personas Fail
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Why Are Data Science Leaders Running for the Exit?
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The Three Machines
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Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks
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Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse
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HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it
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Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf]
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Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
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Evercube
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Risk management is not project management
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Asking your customers what they want doesn't work
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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
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