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Recommends hughpeters · 2019-11 · on “The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read”

Here's the "Non-Bullshit Book on Culture" book this post discusses: Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders, by L. David Marquet Also here's a great speech given by the David Marquet (with drawings!) on the same topic: [this video]

Cites andrei_says_ · 2016-08 · on “Ask HN: Developers – How did you learn to say NO?”

Saying "Yes" to one thing equals saying "No" to other things. Make the cost of the Yes-Es explicit and have the requesting parties prioritize whenever possible (or request prioritization from the decision makers). For the PM and boss: "to attend to this new task, I'll have to postpone these other tasks which you asked me to do. Which one is more important?" + paper trail + "this week we focused on Y and are pushing X one week" in status reports. For the peers and subordinates: if the request is legitimate, discuss, brainstorm, "Here's how I'd approach finding a solution, try it and check in when you find a few possibilities. Google and SO are your friends." And, for subordinates: teach them

Cites jordanbeiber · 2022-09 · on “Is engineering management bullshit?”

I believe the take you see is mostly coming from enterprise developers that have witnessed the immense inefficiency and waste of larger organisations. The solution to a non-engineering savvy manager in such organization is to add more people and more frameworks. Mind you - to "them", these "dreaded MBAs", the development organization is a problem, often regarded as cost, and development is done by... developers. Sometimes the developers is the actual problem and they have gradually sunk the software in to a unmaintainable swamp of crappy code and debt - but this is a competency and hiring problem. It will not be solved by any framework or project manager. But you need the competency in your