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Training Organizational Resilience in Escalating Situations
This little ramble of thoughts are related to my talk at Velocity coming up, but I know I’ll never get to this part at the conference, so I figured I’d post about it here. Building resilience from a...
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Systems Engineering: A great definition.
Ben Rockwood said something last December about the re-emergence of the Systems Engineer and I agree with him, 100%. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, 2007 To add to that, I’d like to quote the...
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While searching around for something else, I came across this note I sent in late 2009 to the executive leadership of Yahoo’s Engineering organization. This was when I was leaving Flickr to work at...
View ArticleOn Being A Senior Engineer
UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of sponsorship. I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while...
View ArticleLearning from Failure at Etsy
(This was originally posted on Code As Craft, Etsy’s engineering blog. I’m re-posting it here because it still resonates strongly as I prepare to teach a ‘postmortem facilitator’s course internally at...
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Paradigm Check Point: Prefacing Debriefings
I’m a firm believer in restating values, goals, and perspectives at the beginning of every group debriefing (e.g. “postmortem meetings”) in order to bring new folks up to speed on how we view the...
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The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
(this is also posted on O’Reilly’s Radar blog. Much thanks to Daniel Schauenberg, Morgan Evans, and Steven Shorrock for feedback on this) Before I begin this post, let me say that this is intended to...
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Architectural Folk Models
I’m going to post the contents of a gist I wrote (2 years ago?!), because Theo is right, some gists are better as posts. The context for this was a debate on Twitter (which, as always, is about as...
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Book Suggestion: “Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together”
Dig this. It’s a diagram from a great book called “Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together” I’m reading a book that was suggested to me by the Director of the Office of Learning in the US Forest Service...
View ArticleMultiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions
Over the years, a number of people have asked about the details surrounding Etsy’s architecture review process. In this post, I’d like to focus on the architecture review working group’s role in...
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