Why leaders need to learn the word No!

Other, alternatives like "Not right now" or "Can we stop working on x and focus on this?”

While it's important to meet customer requests, allowing them to get everything they want can negatively impact our employees and take time away from items help all customers. Agile has streamlined the process of request and delivery, but it can also lead to wasting time on less important tasks. To protect our employees and our business, we should focus on the highest priority items that will improve our MESS.

M-Maintain Efficient Operations
E-Expand Customers or Revenue
S-Save Expense
S-Security Improvements

Comments

2020 State of DevSecOps by Accurics

This is an excellent report for all IT Pros and Engineers. Highlights: Storage is most impacted solution Open security groups or network configuration Secrets are not so secret Unused resources are not secure. Take a look at these. Look again. These are not highly skilled problems. They just need guidelines and proactive management. The article uses policy as code as a solution for many of the problems. I will drill into each of these more in the future. I wanted to get the awareness out first and then, come back to solutions.

Manage IT by Johanna Rothman

I just completed this book. I think it is a really good book which covers a whole lot of software development. This book could possibly be the best book for first time project managers. I believe many of the PMs understand PMM but do not understand software development. This book gives a view of each project role. The only one that it does not cover is Business Analyst or requirements documentation. It does cover QC, development and of course PMs. It gives a PM a view into development processes like TDD, CI and estimation. Many PMs that are new to SD can read this book and get a great start to manager an SD project. If you are a PM or know some, read this book. http://www.jrothman.com/

Learn Anti-Leadership from Basecamp

There are many different articles out there and Twitter comments about the Basecamp drama. I am not going to post any here because it might seem biased depending on the article. Google them yourself. In short, Basecamp made a policy to not allow political discussions at work. Coinbase did this previously too and applauded Basecamp for it. Apparently, for years there has been a list of funny customer names at floating around Basecamp. This list or even the knowledge that Basecamp had a list, was disturbing to some employees. Also, some employees tried to start a Diversity and Inclusion practice. Despite how much the founders of Basecamp promoted DI, they didn't feel they were being taken serious. They felt the company was only about the founders and not about employees. If this isn't enough, the founders debated and even called out employees for their comments regarding the topics, publicly. This is my s...

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