We see the early days of spring and a lot of sunlight is freshening up our body & minds. Let's have a look at the inspiring stuff that I found in April 2021.
- Stefan Zörner writes a beautiful text on influential software architects of our times and what topics, learnings and insights they came up with
- Paul Hudson writes a beautiful, breath-taking, love-letter-like article on how to become an iOS developer in 2021 and spices it with an extensive YouTube learning video
- InnoQ's Shane Hastie give you the patterns and antipatterns of business agility
- Your KPI are not your achievement monitor, but pathfinder on your way. (German)
- Basics about System Thinking in a few images.
- They still live! Web Dev blogs - this time with an easy HTML boilerplate.
Strategy & Tech
- Are you still serving the business? Demand and supply in IT of the 90s? Learn about what you are missing out.
- Here is a playbook / template for a Pre-Mortem
- I've got a new MacBook Air. Which means I have to re-establish my dotfiles. Again, I wanted to make things better than before, so I found Awesome Dotfiles. If you're new to dotfiles, check out the Getting Started Guide
- Ooooh, APIs. The saviors of the future of IT. Uwe Friedrichsen starts an article series and writes about Content Spill in the blogpost "Don't make me think". Yay! Must-read!
- Some basics about roadmapping.
Culture & Leadership
- Jay writes about 5 simple steps to decentralise command and decision making, a foundation for trusting and resilient teams
- Since months we are exclusively working remote. That changes people. Read about what teams are struggling with when working from remote
- If you don't know it, admit it, Johanna Rothman writes.
- How can a meeting culture become toxic? How do you notice? Here is some advice on how to deal with toxic meeting culture.
- How to make people feel safe to speak up?
- Leading yourself with deliberate practice.
- There is a manager's playbook that is a must-read introduction to the basics of leadership.
- Here is the people policy of Neue Narrative, a German magazine.
- How do you deal with uncertainty. Does it lead you to anxiety? It may then restrict the options you see. Leo has some good advice to find delight in uncertainty.
Aside
- Here's a good & quite perfectly working Dungeon Finder for your Minecraft seed.
Podcasts
- Florian Meyer takes on product development and strategy in an interview with Tim Klein on the Produktwerker podcast.
- Aaaaaand the Produktwerker again with an interview with Katja Busch on the difficult User Experience-Stakeholder relationship.
Videos
- Yt! What is the difference of the project and product mindset?
- Somehow I forgot how good Markus Andrezak describes Wardley Maps in this talk at the sip gate HQ. Jump to minute 32 for details.