Elezea: resources for product leaders - Resources for Product Leaders #4
Hi there, and welcome to another edition of Elezea! This is a newsletter with resources and real-life stories for technology product leaders who want to enable empowered teams to build great products. Resources for Product Leaders #4Our ever-expanding jobs, minimum viable process, and coordination challenges in large organizations.
If there’s one essay I think you should read this week, it’s Kurt Armstrong’s Repair and Remain. Kurt runs a “one-man autodidact home-repair business and part-time lay ministry at a little Anglican church”, and he has some advice that applies to so many areas of work, life, and relationships. It all starts with this:
You really have to read the whole essay, but the gist of it is that sometimes (well, most times), “the next thing” is not the best option. Instead, stay a while—and change what you need to change—but don’t bail:
How is this a “resource for product leaders”? Because the advice he shares is also applicable to everything from organizational design to roadmap planning. I am sure you will find something in here that you can apply to your role this week. The Expanding Job →Anne Helen Petersen wrote a really good newsletter on the future (and inequality) of work, that’s another must-read for every leader:
At Wildbit we always try to stay vigilant about invisible work—the stuff that our teams do that’s not tracked in JIRA or somewhere else, the stuff that makes people feel like they are overwhelmed and overworked. So we have a regular cadence as part of our planning cycle to bring invisible work out of the shadows and make sure it’s accounted for. How can you help reduce the invisible work that your team members do? It is a great first step to combatting the problem of the ever-expanding job. Minimum Viable Process →Here’s another newsletter recommendation (I feel about newsletters the way I know many of y’all feel about podcasts), this time by Tim Casasola who writes:
I especially appreciate the practical team exercises he proposes to help reduce unnecessary process. Software engineering in-the-large: the coordination challenge →Short but thoughtful post by Lorin Hochstein about the coordination challenges in large organizations:
I am still a big fan of Team Topologies as a way to accomplish this kind of coordination effectively across an organization, but there is, of course, no one-size-fits-all approach to organizational design. We’re all just doing our best here! That’s it for this edition. If you’re looking for something fun to listen to to help make your day a little brighter, I recommend Hatchie’s new album Giving the World Away. I’m not a huge pop fan, but this is dreamy and lovely. Have a good week, everyone! -Rian If you liked this post from Elezea Newsletter, please share it with someone you like! |
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