Personal Productivity and Conway's Law
Get ready for a productivity party as Ian and Ash dive into the chaotic world of getting stuff done! From Ash's Trello-powered life management system to Ian's valiant attempts at David Allen's Getting Things Done, our dynamic duo explore the highs and lows of personal productivity.
Warning: may contain traces of work-in-progress limits and an unhealthy obsession with database administrators.
But wait, there's more! Brace yourself for a mind-bending journey into Conway's Law, where organizational charts meet software architecture in a cosmic dance of confusion. Watch Ian struggle to grasp Ash's examples (don't worry, he gets there eventually) as they unravel the mysteries of monoliths, microservices, and everything in between.
With a sprinkle of neoliths, megalithic humor, and a dash of LinkedIn bot paranoia, this episode is guaranteed to leave you questioning your team structure and reaching for your Trello board. Remember folks, in the world of What A Lot Of Things, everything changes while staying exactly the same!
Links
Warning: may contain traces of work-in-progress limits and an unhealthy obsession with database administrators.
But wait, there's more! Brace yourself for a mind-bending journey into Conway's Law, where organizational charts meet software architecture in a cosmic dance of confusion. Watch Ian struggle to grasp Ash's examples (don't worry, he gets there eventually) as they unravel the mysteries of monoliths, microservices, and everything in between.
With a sprinkle of neoliths, megalithic humor, and a dash of LinkedIn bot paranoia, this episode is guaranteed to leave you questioning your team structure and reaching for your Trello board. Remember folks, in the world of What A Lot Of Things, everything changes while staying exactly the same!
Links
- In Defence of Productivity by Jason Swett
- The Protestant Work Ethic by Oliver Burkeman
- David Allen’s Getting Things Done
- 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, and his TEDx Manchester talk Why Patience is a Superpower
- Productivity software: OmniFocus 4, Trello
- Outside Context Problem, from Excession by Iain M Banks
- Windows Recall: How to turn it off and why you should at Tom’s Guide
- The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren
- Strangler Fig blog post by Martin Fowler, and his post on Conway’s Law.
- Conway’s Law and Mel Conway's paper How Committees Invent
- Dealing with Creaky Legacy Platforms by Jonny LeRoy
- Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, Wardley Maps by Simon Wardley and The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink
- Hachyderm
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Creators and Guests
Host
Ash Winter
Tester and international speaker, loves to talk about testability. Along with a number of other community minded souls, one of the co-organisers of the Leeds Testing Atelier. Also co-author of the Team Guide to Software Testability.
