Wow. It is May, 1st and I am sitting at a lake on a camping site early in the morning. It is beautiful. Gone is April and the funny weather. Here comes summer. There was lots of stuff done last month so now I am enjoying the 1-day-vacation somewhere in Franken, Germany.
Next to all the boardgames we played, we continued to run our podcast Professional Curiosity. I experimented with whisper a bit to create a transcript of our episodes and it works like charm - on an M2 MacBook Air. If you want to dig in, too, here's a tutorial by Egor Menyaylo.
Leadership
- There is a new podcast out on leadership by Lena Reinhard titled Leadership Confidential.
- Disagree and Commit is one of the best episodes on decision-making in organisations that I have listened to in a long time. Jason Fried and DHH talk about decisions at 37signals/basecamp and how crazy important it is to have the capability to disagree with someone, but still commit to a made decision. Decisions are made good by commitment of the people.
Working Agile, using Scrum
- I had the pleasure to moderate a retrospective format in a team that only occasionally collaborates together. Jeremiah's writing on remote retrospectives with miro helped me greatly to pull it off. Thanks!
Strategy & Products
- If you are looking for ways to break down your vision into strategies into mission goals and into work packages, give Lean Value Tree a try. It's a simple, but effective way to create clarity for personal or organisational purposes. There are two parts: 1, 2.
- Mayank Gupta creates this great overview and entry to Wardley Maps.
- Even more about OKR. So much, that even Roman Pichler can't resist the topic. So he writes about OKRs and product roadmaps.
- I stumbled upon this older article on Amazon strategies and principles. I am pretty sure they are not necessarily the dominating element in this huge company, but it is definitely worth to read why it is Always Day 1 at Amazon.
- You may remember me writing and promoting the Strategy Hexagon by Dark Horse. So here is an extensive miro board about the hexagon with great explanation videos (in German).
HTML & CSS
- I like to read about people with crazy, out-of-your-mind ideas :-) Here is Scott Jehl with an article on how he re-build Wordle with just HTML & CSS - via.
That's it for last month. Summer is coming. Be sure to go outside, be kind to others, meet new friends and enjoy your life. 2024 is going to be the best summer of your life!