/Management

What Great Hybrid Cultures Do Differently

- James Stanier tl;dr: "Hybrid work only works when all employees are treated as remote employees. To do this, companies need to do five things: embrace asynchronous communication, make communication boundaries clear, champion documentation and the production of artifacts, share information widely, and provide the right tools for employees to succeed." Each are discussed in this post. 

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The State Of Internal Tools 2022

tl;dr: Since 2020, we’ve surveyed developers for our State of Internal Tools report. We set out to find how companies build internal tools, who uses them, and how teams measure their impact on the business. Discover our highlights from this year’s State Of Internal Tools here.

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How To Tool For Developer Productivity

- Kathryn Koehler tl;dr: Director of Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix shares what kind of tooling you should focus on building, whether you should build or buy your tooling, and how to measure the success of your tooling in developer satisfaction and productivity.

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How To Prevent Secrets From Ending Up On Developer's Machines

- Ryan Blunden tl;dr: Even with environment variable storage offered by modern hosting platforms and secrets managers provided by every cloud, developer's machines are still littered with secrets in unencrypted text files because local development was left out of the picture. Learn how to prevent secrets from ending up on developer's machines.

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On Workplace Productivity

- Nicole Forsgren tl;dr: A holistic framework for productivity can be summarized by the acronym SPACE: (1) Satisfaction and well-being. (2) Performance. (3) Activity. (4) Communication and collaboration. (5) Efficiency. Nicole provides 3 insights: Finding flow is key and interruptions are a drag, meetings are both awesome and terrible, and a two-minute daily reflection can help improve your days. 

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How Do I Make Sure My Work Is Visible?

tl;dr: James covers: (1) The difficulty of remembering what you’re working on in a fast-paced environment when every week feels like a blur. (2) Brag documents, a great way to tackle the above problem. (3) The process James uses to write one, an iterative process throughout each week. (4) An evolution of brag documents into internal newsletters.

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The Product Culture Shift

- Camille Fournier tl;dr: "Adding product management to more traditional software infrastructure organizations, sometimes with a shift towards platform engineering, is all the rage today. As someone who has done both these things, it doesn’t surprise me to see so many people struggling to make it work... It’s easy for people who have spent their whole career building infrastructure to misunderstand what product and platform really mean. So I thought I’d share the secret to making this work."

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Understanding The Value Of SOC 2 Compliance For Your Company

tl;dr: Being asked to prove your company’s security is a common blocker in getting your sales deals moving. But with the right perspective, this obstacle can be turned into a competitive advantage. Read the blog to learn more!

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Rituals For Engineering Teams

- Charity Majors tl;dr: "The thing that grabbed me here is that rituals create a sense of belonging. You show that you belong to the group by participating in the ritual... It seems especially relevant these days when so many of us are atomized and physically separated from our teammates. That ineffable sense of belonging can make all the difference between a job that you do and a role that feeds your soul." Charity provides examples from various teams.

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Platform Engineering KPIs

tl;dr: "In this post we will share our approach to building out KPI trees for our platform engineering teams... Starting with the product development process, we will explain how we shaped our platform vision, resulting in a set of actionable KPIs that we use to identify our biggest problems and continuously measure our platform’s performance."

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