LinkedIn '09 Grad Guide
Ok, future movers and shakers. Here it is. Your defining moment. Why are you here?
The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Thinking about joining a startup, or working at one already? That’s great! If you play your cards right, it will be one of the best decisions you’ve ever made in your professional career.
What single project or task would you consider the most significant accomplishment in your career so far?
For better or for worse, the idea someone will remain at a company long term is just so 2001. So if employers today are truly dedicated to their employees it means accepting they’ll likely leave.
These are the eight strategies that I use to build championship teams:
Your job may suck, but you should still be actively attempting to stay engaged and manage your own happiness.
People get excited when they get to bring themselves to work all the way, when their viewpoint and creative energy is part of the company’s success plan and baked into it.
Some engineers are limited due to the limits of their employer’s technology profile. If new technology projects aren’t available, you must make the difficult decision of moving on versus getting a steady paycheck at a solid organization.
f you feel you are not growing, feel you can "do better", are dreading coming to work or are feeling bitter about your employer, it may be time to look outside.
the reality is some organizations treat the departing employees as ‘dead stock having shorter shelf life’. The common thought is that ‘he/she is leaving X days from now, why should we support him?’. Always the experience on the ‘last days’ with the organization will last longer than normal working days.
Twice in my career I have left corporate jobs for startups. The first time I left was because I wanted to be in an innovative work environment where we would be inventing and creating technology that never existed. I tasted what it was like to work in a fast moving amazing technology company. I felt alive and the energy from my team was amazing.
Just as translators aren’t the ones solving diplomatic crisis’s between countries, coders won’t be the ones solving problems in the future.
Any company stingy enough to steal its employees’ frequent-flyer miles is not an employer that can grow your flame or take you to the next step on your path.
Vissa som har satsat på agilt på allvar har vunnit rejäla fördelar. Motiverade team, tajtare leveranser, nöjdare kunder, högre transparens och ett tydligt budskap till nya potentiella kollegor: "Kom till oss, vi skeppar faktiskt grejor och vi har kul när vi gör det".
If people aren’t having fun at work, then you’re doing it wrong. People don’t give their all if they aren’t having fun, and fun is a major protector against brownout.
Teamet utvecklas om de får möjlighet att pröva nya vägar (lärande), utvärdera vad som fungerar och inte och distribuera beprövade lösningar till andra (skapa struktur).
we added an optional theme of fixing things and called it "Fix It Week." We did this because we want to build a culture that celebrates both creating new things as well as fixing, reinventing and improving what we already have.
How can you take the Agile Mindset serious where continuous improvement is important if you live in the society that is trapped in their past and do not improve because they believe it is already great?!
SBAB:s utvecklingsavdelning stod alltså inför den stora utmaningen att omorganisera delar av vår avdelning och bilda 6-7 team bestående av totalt cirka 40 medarbetare
Elon listens, answers personally, and makes changes at an incredible speed. That is one of the reasons he is so successful.
If your software developers are able to accurately estimate how long something will take, you should fire them
How can we as a team complete the most important user story before the next meeting?
The little revenue from selling something unique to a specific customer doesn’t even come close to the lifetime cost of maintaining this functionality
A self-reflective culture allows the culture to evolve in accordance with the changes in the business context in which the company operates.
Otydliga prioriteringar bidrar till långa ledtider, uteblivet teamwork och lägre arbetsglädje
The happiest teams I’ve met are those who enjoy collaborating with each other. They do schedule one or two hours every day for solo work, though.
Problemet är bara att allt för ofta blir den tillfälliga lösningen permanent och det där återbesöket blir aldrig av eller markant kortare än förväntat, för en ny hypotes dyker upp som måste valideras. Det vi skeppade fungerar ju ändå och kunderna verkar hyfsat nöjda, det var good enough for now och safe enough to try.
If your best and brightest employees have started to become silent, or worse, started leaving, your organization may already be breeding a culture of complacency and indifference
"no matter how long you wait to release your first version, you will be embarrassed by it." In other words, even if you blow deadlines and exceed budgets in an obsessive effort to achieve perfection at launch, you’re still going to be embarrassed by your first version anyway!
Det är väldigt sällan som team rensar bort gammal funktionalitet innan de bygger ny. Det är logiskt att göra plats i garderoben genom att rensa gamla kläder innan vi köper nya.
För att bygga upplevelsen av ett SVT Play, oavsett plattform, skärm eller kontext, är det viktigt med gemensamma produktmål och riktlinjer som t ex vår visuella identitet. Så vi har tagit fram följande principer, som vi kallar PLAY
Tack vare att vi använder moderna tekniker kan vi lägga våra utvecklingsresurser på att bygga smarta lösningar för våra användare istället för att bygga lösningar för vår plattform.
This cloud edge architecture works well for Netflix’s global scale and 200M+ member base. Evolving from the early 2007 architecture to today’s required designing for the next order of scale, implementing and iterating, and learning from failures along the way.
The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. People who maintained this schedule had a unique level of focus in their work.
For as long as I can remember, CSS layouts were always a collection of carefully crafted hacks. That time is now over.
Designed as a temporary, remote office, band members can take a break from their OFFICE MIX or HOME MIX routine for a truly unique Work from Anywhere experience. First up: Åre, Sweden - the alpine heart of Scandinavia and a popular skiing destination.
In a lot of ways, building a company is a lot like building a product. Just like products, companies too have features, and those features then have users and qualities. With this premise in mind, let’s use product building techniques for building our company as well.