Bruce Morrison

Change request boards are like cholesterol in the arteries of your organization @boicy at @yow_conf

Have you submitted to #DDDBne yet? You only have until the end of the week! sessionize.com/ddd-brisbane-2…

OUR NEW AD IS LIVE!   You’re the Voice that will make history.   On 14 October, we know we all can stand together with the power to be powerful.   #HistoryIsCalling, so #VoteYes. Are you in? John Farnham is.   #UluruStatement #StayTrue2Uluru #YoureTheVoice #VoteYes

The new year loses much of its meaning when you have a time machine. But Claudia is a traditionalist. She periodically goes back to the start of her favorite year whenever she wants to make a vow about the person she intends to become whenever the future finally arrives.

If you hate OKRs, someone is doing them wrong. Maybe you, maybe your boss.

After spending almost a decade at startups, I’ve realized that org design is an underrated skill. A well thought out org structure is integral to revenue growth, hiring, and retention. Org design says more about your company strategy than a strategy doc ever can.

One of the hardest things to teach in software engineering: it's literally all made up, functions are just GOTOs, the computer doesn't care what anything is called, almost all the "structure" in our code is only there to make something convenient for another human to comprehend

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/

Years from now, they will not remember what they got or what they gave. They will not remember dinner or that tiff about the dishes. They will remember sprawling on the couch after everyone else went to bed, turning to each other and saying, ‘This was a good one.’ And so it was.

We made a new thing! Jeli's all about evolving the industry, but building a new post-incident process is...super hard. So we did it for you. Introducing📄✨ Howie: The Post- Incident Guide. 📄✨ Download it, print it, share it, frame it. Use it to evolve. jeli.io/howie-the-post…

Agility ≠ Speed "Software development is better thought of in terms of product development than project management, therefore time to market is typically less important than time in market. Sprinting matters less than endurance." kevlinhenney.medium.com/agility-speed-…

A team is a system. No one part of the system is responsible for its success. Success comes only from the system as a whole.

I built a visualisation of inter region APIs hosted in AWS to help illustrate where best to host web applications. Has infra in every AWS region 😅 aws-api-latency.wolfe.id.au #AWS #serverless You can def see how well connected us-* regions are.

Well, I didn’t hate being awake until I saw this:

"If team members know what is expected of them, what they can expect of their team mates, and that they can depend on their team mates for help, psychological safety on the team increases." @tom_geraghty psychsafety.co.uk/the-difference… #team #psychologicalsafety

Here are the slides for my "Diagrams as code 2.0" talk ... static.architectis.je/trifork2021-di… (thanks again to everybody who attended on Thursday evening!)

I find that in my work role, I'm in a continuous state of leaning forward. The only way that I don't fall on my face is by continuously adjusting and readjusting and compensating. This what leadership feels like to me. It's not a bad thing, but if I stay still, I will faceplant.

Interesting thread on testing “Summary: I'm not sure developers are the best judge of whether developers have done a good enough job”