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by koliber 3y ago
> Frankly, PMs are not the ones to handle UX, wireframing, tracking progress, organizing stand-ups, or being the sole authors of PRDs/specs, etc. Who should be? There are many schools of thought on this. In the end, it comes down to
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by koliber 3y ago
I often do have a clear image in my mind for an article. I can not draw it and I don't have the budget to hire someone to do it. The image is meant to convey a feeling. It is meant to make an abstract concept from the article a little
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by koliber 3y ago
Key results can be more granular and less granular. Think of it as a continuum. Some are continuous: - Improve the time to first byte for the homepage by 500ms. This one is continuous, because time is continuous. Realistically it will be qu
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by koliber 3y ago
You are hitting on an important and difficult aspect of OKRs. Getting the alignment between what you can affect (the leading indicator) and what the outcome is (business value). It's not an exact science. You can make pro and con argum
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by koliber 3y ago
Correct. Breaking something into N tickets is one way of approaching OKRs. It does not go against the spirit of OKRs. Reducing tech debt and making a metric out of the number if Jira tickets can work, and is a workable approach if there is
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by koliber 3y ago
The key results are not a problem just for you! You are hitting the nail on the head. Check out section 6 of this study ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.00236.pdf ) - defining good OKRs is problem number 1, and data issues
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by koliber 3y ago
Love the candidness in your writing. Thank you for explaining the reference.
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by koliber 3y ago
OKRs are a goal setting framework for non-trivial 3-12 month goals. Some people are self motivated and well organized, are great at communicating progress proactively to other stakeholders, an understand the idea of cross departmental align
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by koliber 3y ago
There is hard knowledge and there is tacit knowledge. It’s not black and white. It’s a continuum. Tacit knowledge documentation can take form of pro tips, best practices, anecdotes, postmortems, retrospectives, values, and philosophy statem
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by koliber 3y ago
What does he mean by "Januszness". There's an obscure Polish connotation here, but it makes no sense in this article.
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by koliber 3y ago
Anna Karenina. The book was fascinating for many reasons. It made me realize how much people’s concerns, worries, and perspectives from over 100 years ago from Russia are similar to the ones in todays western world. The book is timeless.
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by koliber 3y ago
This is what lawyers are for. Instead of two companies actually competing, each spends a bunch of dollars on lawyers to fight in court. The one who spends the most dollars on lawyers wins. Just to be clear, there is a lot of sarcasm here. B
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by koliber 3y ago
It used to be common wisdom that for hyper marathons you needed to sleep. People thought that you can not run a few days non stop. And then Cliff Young proved that theory wrong. And now they run non-stop, at least for the Sydney to Melbourn
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by koliber 3y ago
You’re right. I worded it poorly in my original reply. I fixed it.
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by koliber 3y ago
The first thing mentioned in this article can be summed up: minimize pauses. He calls it "eliminate dependencies" but it's really about finding out where work stops and needs to wait for something. This is so important. It&#x
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by koliber 3y ago
I've worked with toxic teams and I've worked with productive teams. There can be an overlap, but one does not indicate the other. Working with respectful like-minded highly-motivated and capable people and building things quickly
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by koliber 3y ago
Everyone is surprised by this when they realize it. The crazy thing is that this person was using DBs for 15 years. Have they only ever used != with non-null columns before? Hard to imagine.
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by koliber 3y ago
I wonder if the 50% drop was because developers were half as effective without copilot. Or was it because they have spent half of the day looking for ways to bypass the block while having angry conversations with colleagues, and therefore,
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by koliber 3y ago
You could do it as a single encrypted text file. The UX on it is more difficult. My password manager is frictionless and secure (I currently believe, based on best available info). With a single keystroke, while in a web browser where the m
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by koliber 3y ago
That's indisputable. Maybe faraday cages should be mandated in cars, in addition to rear-facing cameras. :)
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by koliber 3y ago
In the end, social constructs drive such decisions, not computer algorithms. Having independent boards adds more friction and variety to major decisions. That does not mean that there is no way to influence them or change boards. It’s how t
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by koliber 3y ago
I noticed that too, but I am questioning myself. I’m wondering how much other people’s driving has gotten worse, vs me getting older, more defensive and risk averse, and noticing such driving. If I look back to my 20s, I was not an exemplar
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by koliber 3y ago
Additionally, the auto fill will not be fooled by lookalike sites.
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by koliber 3y ago
Sometimes you want to identify things by type, and sometimes by capability. There is a time and a place for each. The article illustrates the case where capabilities were used instead of types to create complexity. It can go the other way t
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by koliber 3y ago
Restricting AI tools in development work is pointless. However, the person using them should still be smarter than those tools. They should use the tools to boost their own efficiency. In ask people to describe me the code they are going to
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by koliber 3y ago
People develop emotional relationships with non-living things all the time. Phones and cars come to mind.
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by koliber 3y ago
You might enjoy Tom7's "Harder Drive" video. It's pure geek comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
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by koliber 3y ago
... but you'll need to use Teams for collaboration.
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by koliber 3y ago
Put some bitcoin mining rigs on them.

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