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What I really miss in retirement

Ben’s Blog 🏉 🧠🧑‍💻 • 40 implied HN points • 13 Feb 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Teamwork
  1. Being part of a team striving towards a common goal brings a sense of purpose and fulfillment in retirement.
  2. Belonging to a community or family and contributing to something greater than oneself is vital for health and happiness.
  3. Connecting with others and slowing down to be part of a team can lead to long-term satisfaction, unlike pursuing individual success hastily.

The Engineering Rating Bell Curve

Sheep Code • 40 implied HN points • 05 Jan 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Engineering performance tends to land on a bell curve.
  2. Your manager's perception of you is crucial for your growth in the company.
  3. Top engineers are detail-oriented, recognize trade-offs, and are trusted for advice.
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untitled map app says goodbye

an email from eugene • 1 HN point • 30 Apr 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Building a startup with remote cofounders is challenging; physical proximity is crucial in the early stages.
  2. When combining a project with a full-time job, clear agreements on expectations and future plans are essential to prevent stalling and conflicts.
  3. Discussing and establishing clear responsibilities and boundaries with your cofounder from the beginning is crucial to avoid uncertainty and mismatched expectations.

Psychological Safety

Fish Food for Thought • 16 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Psychological safety is crucial for team success, more than individual skills or composition.
  2. Google's Project Aristotle highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills in successful teams.
  3. Data-driven decision-making is essential, but human elements like trust and open communication are critical for team success.

Nine rules for effective meetings

A Bit Gamey • 6 implied HN points • 15 Dec 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Every meeting should have a clear leader and a specific purpose. This helps everyone know what to focus on and what to achieve.
  2. It's important to keep everyone involved in the discussion, but also to stay on topic. This means selecting participants carefully and using tools to stay organized.
  3. Conclude meetings with clear actions and responsibilities. This ensures that everyone knows what they need to do next and helps keep things moving forward.

Convergence Points

Building Rome(s) • 15 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Effective organizations succeed through quick movement, nimbleness, decision-making, and goal achievement.
  2. Meaningful conversations serve as crucial convergence points in successful cross-functional projects.
  3. Processes can hinder communication if they don't facilitate conversations; prioritize conversational effectiveness.

Scrum - use the good parts too!

Nikola’s Substack • 1 HN point • 20 Apr 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Consider streamlining meetings in Scrum - fewer, more effective meetings can be beneficial.
  2. Simplify story points and estimations in Scrum by setting straightforward guidelines to avoid confusion and enhance planning.
  3. Maintain the core strengths of Scrum like sprint structure and the Scrum Master role, while adapting them to best suit the team and project needs.

Warn: A little of your time to save others a lot.

DruGroup • 19 implied HN points • 31 Aug 21
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Leaders should share warnings to help others avoid wasting their time on bad opportunities. It's important to give colleagues a heads-up when you spot something that isn't worth their effort.
  2. Warning others can help clarify priorities in an organization. By communicating what to avoid, it allows everyone to focus on the most important tasks together.
  3. Using warnings highlights the values and ethics of a workplace. It helps make it clear when something is unethical, which is good for team integrity.

The Hagakure #67: Sunday Round-Up

The Hagakure • 13 implied HN points • 03 Sep 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Make friends with your inner critic to push past perfectionism in writing.
  2. Effective leadership involves regular communication to drive clarity and unity within a team.
  3. Prioritize giving honest feedback to improve relationships and team dynamics, even if it's uncomfortable.

You made this? I made this.

readfromdisk • 1 HN point • 26 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Teamwork
  1. Sometimes in organizations, teams might prefer to own something symbolically rather than dealing with its responsibilities and maintenance.
  2. It can be more appealing to showcase a shiny solution without actually fixing deep-rooted problems in the organization.
  3. Working on real solutions and solving actual problems might be less glamorous but more impactful than just claiming ownership for the surface.

The tragedy of the common leader

The Engineering Manager • 10 implied HN points • 30 Nov 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Having a strong peer group in middle management is important but can be challenging.
  2. The tragedy of the commons can result in self-interest and competition among peers with the same leader.
  3. Building relationships with peers based on value, conflict, or neutrality can improve collaboration and effectiveness.

Teamwork

Fish Food for Thought • 15 implied HN points • 19 Apr 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Teamwork is essential for achieving larger goals and solving complex problems
  2. Teams leverage individual strengths and make up for weaknesses, resulting in better performance
  3. Diverse teams lead to more innovation and better results, with benefits like reduced burnout and increased happiness for team members

If You’re Running Every Meeting, You’re Failing Your Team

The Software Engineering Times • 1 implied HN point • 14 Jul 25
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. If you're always running the meetings, it shows you might not trust your team to handle things. Good managers allow others to lead to help them grow.
  2. Letting your team lead meetings is a great way to coach them. Afterward, talk about what went well and what could be improved.
  3. Sometimes, wanting to control every meeting is more about ego than anything else. To build a strong team, you need to let go and support them instead.

Shape of "Trust" - Pt 3: Roads - When Teams Lack Trust

Building Rome(s) • 7 implied HN points • 13 Jan 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Trust is vital for effective teamwork, based on collaborative problem-solving, honesty, respect, mutual support, and open communication.
  2. Undermining factors of trust among teams include ego, politics, incompetence, and failure of leadership.
  3. Technical Program Managers (TPMs) can address challenges by promoting humility, managing relationships, identifying struggles, and advocating for transparency.

TBM 277: Bring Back Fun

The Beautiful Mess • 3 HN points • 12 Mar 24
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Working with interesting people in a fun environment can make solving challenging problems exciting and rewarding.
  2. Many people in product making industries find joy in solving fun problems with diverse and engaging teams.
  3. The current tech landscape is becoming more serious and competitive, with a focus on efficiency, but there is a strong desire to bring back fun, creativity, and collaboration in workplaces.

How to Run Effective Sprint Planning Sessions

The Incrementalist • 4 HN points • 30 Jul 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Bulk of the sprint planning should happen 2 weeks leading up to the sprint start, allowing time for preparation and setting the stage for success.
  2. During the sprint planning session, focus on high-level sprint review and alignment, while detailed discussions should occur prior to the meeting.
  3. Each team member should take ownership and drive their work stream, creating tickets and breaking down work into manageable chunks, ensuring a proactive and self-driven approach.

Building in the long/short term as a small team

Mehdeeka • 3 implied HN points • 11 Oct 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Understand the business goals and integrate marketing into the overall strategy.
  2. Use a goal framework like OKRs to plan, track, and present your objectives.
  3. Balancing long and short term planning is about continual refinement and aligning with the company's overall goals.

First Thing to Get Right as a Manager

TeamCraft • 2 HN points • 19 Jun 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. In management, send costly signals to create legitimacy - actions speak louder than words.
  2. Technical expertise isn't always necessary for a manager; different skills may be more valuable.
  3. Establish credibility early by demonstrating behaviors over time, not just making grand statements.

The Incredible Logistics Of Formula 1

Huddle Up • 1 HN point • 01 Mar 24
🎾 Sports Teamwork
  1. Formula 1 involves intricate logistics due to the extensive global travel involved in the sport.
  2. The teams deal with different challenges for European races, which are easier due to truck transportation, versus flyaway races, which require complex shipping arrangements by sea and air.
  3. Back-to-back races pose a significant challenge, requiring quick disassembly, transportation over long distances, and rapid rebuilding at the next race location.

Square of Happiness

Fish Food for Thought • 1 HN point • 25 Oct 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. To create an engaged culture, focus on service, growth, and communal success.
  2. Meaningful work involves being part of something bigger, personal growth, and shared achievements.
  3. Autonomy is key in fostering innovation, ownership, and driving success in a dynamic culture.

Founders: How Do You Identify The Real Problem?

Meliora by Ana Stoica • 0 implied HN points • 24 Feb 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Encouraging problem-solving through coaching can boost employee morale and lead to innovative solutions
  2. Helping employees think deeper by identifying underlying problems can improve team collaboration and performance
  3. Using coaching skills to enhance problem-solving conversations can lead to a more constructive work environment

Kanban Quickstart

Certo Modo • 0 implied HN points • 28 Jul 23
💼 Business Teamwork
  1. Kanban is an efficient process for organizing team work, especially for interrupt-driven teams like Site Reliability Engineering, Operations, IT, or Customer Support.
  2. Implementing Kanban provides visibility, measurability, and easy reprioritization of work, helping build credibility and trust with stakeholders.
  3. Key elements of effectively managing Kanban include tracking all work items, creating clear work state columns, limiting work-in-progress, and using metrics to drive continuous improvement.