Ancestors

Toot

Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2024-12-31 at 06:37

Rereading “Peopleware” if you have never read this book, you must, it is 🔥and it applies today sooo much.

1/x

[#]programming

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Descendants

Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2024-12-31 at 19:42

2/x Catalysts need not apply

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2024-12-31 at 19:43

3/x


He was just bragging 



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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2024-12-31 at 19:44

4/x Quality is free ... or is it?

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2024-12-31 at 19:45

5/x 30 years later and still the same discourse

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2024-12-31 at 19:45

6/x The 10x dev myth, and the reality

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-02 at 04:17

7/x Does a better workplace mean folks perform better or are the best performers attracted to the better workplace? Doesn’t matter.



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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-02 at 04:18

8/x 
You said you care about safe code?

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-05 at 02:06


9/x They are so close to getting it 🤔

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-05 at 02:07

10/x

So you say you care about safe code part II

Open office spaces that force folks to listen to music to drown out distractions are bad for spotting critical issues.


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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-08 at 06:00

11/x

on Christopher Alexander and work spaces

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-08 at 06:00

12/x

On standardizing

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-08 at 06:01

13/x

left/right brain

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-08 at 06:01

14/x

On well jelled teams

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Written by Dave on 2024-12-31 at 23:58

@shafik A former colleague of mine, who was a physicist, would tell people newly into supervisory positions: "quantum mechanics is easy; people are hard"

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-01 at 00:00

@zornslemmon

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Written by David Chisnall (Now with 50% more sarcasm!) on 2025-01-01 at 09:07

@shafik All good quotes, but if you only get one thing from reading Peopleware, I would say the most important is this (from memory, about a third of the way in?):

Your job as a manager is not to make people work. Most people want to be able to take pride in the things that they’ve built. Your job is to remove obstacles.

I suspect a lot of the RTO mandates are from managers who do not understand this and think that they need to be forcing their people to work, and they think this because they have created a lot of obstacles to anyone on their team doing anything that they can feel proud of.

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-01 at 16:41

@david_chisnall

I would be hard pressed to pick a most important b/c all of it is important.

I think one of the high level take aways is that you need to create a work environment folks want to work in and quality, productivity etc will flow from that.

They pick apart each aspect but at the end of the day all of it is important.

Happy folks produce great work.

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Written by Michael on 2025-01-01 at 10:44

@shafik Thanks for the suggestion. Will put it in my list of books to read!

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Written by MikeStok on 2025-01-01 at 14:49

@shafik @wordshaper This is one of my favourite books about team management. I was lucky enough to have a manager who encouraged me to read his copy when it first came out, and I’ve lost count of how many of my copies are on “permanent loan” to various folks 😃

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-01 at 16:42

@MikeStok @wordshaper

Yeah, I may need to start giving out copies to folks.

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Written by Jim Nielsen on 2025-01-01 at 15:13

@shafik is this the book?

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-01 at 16:09

@jimniels yes, I have the second edition. I need to figure out what the third has that is new.

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Written by vruz on 2025-01-01 at 16:14

@shafik

Have they tried treating humans as if they were humans, and asking them?

In technical terms that any systems thinker can understand, humans exhibit rather fascinating reflection properties.

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Written by Tanaki (pumpkin spice loaf) on 2025-01-02 at 02:59

@shafik YES this book was fundamental to my understanding of tech work! ❤️ ... before it went out of print, i used to buy a copy for the bookshelf of each new job and encourage people to flip through it.

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-02 at 03:04

@tanaki

Yeah, 30+ years and we still seem to be living in the caves wrt to the insights in this book.

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Written by ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 on 2025-01-02 at 23:48

@shafik Yes! Probably the reason tech dudes don't know much about human nature or human relationships. Or maybe found them difficult to understand and took refuge in tech, which only made their difficulty worse.

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-02 at 23:51

@anne_twain This probably applies to some subset of the community.

The great thing is, that no matter what the reason is you can learn a lot from reading this book 🧐

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