I usually exchange interesting articles, presentations and links with my friends in many different ways. I thought it would be better to use one simple way, so I’m going start a weekly series where I post articles, presentations and links I read during the week and find interesting. So here is the collection for calendar week 12, 2011:
- Google was always famous for innovation. Patrick Copeland presented the eXtreme innovation approach – used by Google -, in his Keynote at QCon 2010. Pretotyping seems to be a good way for implementing only those ideas that really matter. It also helps not to spend time and money on ideas that people will hardly ever or never going to use.
- Jurgen Appelo (author of Management 3.0) created a nice presentation about the Purpose of Leadership. It is a very good and recommended reading material for team leaders who would like to improve their teams and themselves.
- My average e-mail inflow was approximately 90 e-mails per day and I read about 5 of them. I was happy to read an article about how to write e-mails effectively. If everyone who wrote to me, had read this article and had written mails as the author had suggests, I might have had the chance to read all of them.
- A couple of friends became very enthusiastic about coding dojos, but they ran out of kata exercises for refactoring. Fortunately, one of them found a site full of code that could use some refactoring.
- Last but not least, here comes a great post about handling waste properly in lean systems. As usual, waste elimination is not black or white. A good lean/Kanban team (or team leader) should be able to recognize the nature of the waste, and eliminate what is really unnecessary.
