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engineers and product people just hate working on features “sold” by the sales department without asking them in an effort to meet objectives for bonuses.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. (Lao Tzu)

The idea that agile is bordering on micromanagement is not a new one. Mike Cohn

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It's all about micromanagement. Almost every principle and practice of agile is there to support micromanagement. The daily scrum is about micro-managing the team's daily work plans and making sure that everyone is doing what they say they'll do. Continuous integration is put in place so that the minute some developer screws up and breaks a build, it becomes known. Pair programming is about making sure that programmers don't lose focus, don't goldplate, don't work on only the fun stuff, and that they clean things up. Ah, but who is it that is doing this micromanagement? It's the team. Yes, agile is about micromanagment, but it's about the team micromanaging themselves and for their own benefit.

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The teams that have worked well are teams where the engineers make decisions about process collectively, and decisions don’t get forced down upon them.

The most significant problem of a code review is asynchronous ping-pong of quite difficult questions/answers. This is inefficient, but also makes people frustrated.

A session means there is a one driver — one who types/clicks, and one navigator — navigator tells the driver what to do. The 2 other team members keeps attention, and only when the navigator goes in a wrong direction, then interrupts. Navigator navigates for 3 minutes — really, just 3 minutes, and then rotate.

At Buurtzorg, all new team members take a course called Solution-Driven Methods of Interaction, learning sophisticated listening and communication skills, techniques for running meetings and making decisions, and methods of coaching one another and providing perspective. You might assume that all this is managed through staff functions — the source of capability and power in many Orange and Green organizations. But Buurtzorg’s 9,000 nurses are supported by fewer than 50 staff people. The nurses do their own recruiting and purchasing, contracting for specialized medical or legal expertise when needed.

How to reveal if developers are micromanaged? Ask the following.How do you handle bugs? Do you handle these as a team or an individual solves them?What’s your on-call policy? Do you have one?Do developers feel in control of the tasks? Do you have clear task scopes?

What can you use to find out fake agile practices?Ask the following questions:How do you handle bugs? Are bugs resolved as a team or an individual handles them?How often do you release software? What’s your release cadence?Do you have a product owner, scrum masters? How is communication to the client done?What’s your code review process? How many required approvals do you have? What’s the last comment you left on a code review?What’s your take on tech debt? How would you classify tech debt?Tell me more about testing practices. Do you use Sonar or other static analysis tools? Do you use integration, unit tests? Do you have a dedicated team of testers?How do you handle issues? Do you have an issue tracker?

User-centered design (UCD) is an iterative design process in which designers focus on the users and their needs in each phase of the design process. In UCD, design teams involve users throughout the design process via a variety of research and design techniques, to create highly usable and accessible products for them.

a very experienced programmer who installs an excessively large stack of frameworks and then expects new developers to be experts in all of them.

从单枪匹马，到组队“吃鸡”，能力很难迁移。

不管你现在从事什么工作，学好项目管理，拥有“使众人行”这项稀缺能力，都可以让你在专业之外，获得更大的成长空间，在职场中拥有更多的晋升话语权。

n a self-managing, purpose-driven organization, change can come from any person who senses that change is needed. This is how change has occurred in nature for millions of years. Innovation doesn’t happen centrally, according to plan, but at the edges, when some organism senses a change in the environment and experiments to find an appropriate response.

Other companies look five years ahead and make plans for the next year. They prefer to think like farmers: Look 20 years ahead, and plan only for the next day.

Do you blame individuals?How do you fix bugs?Do you assign all the bugs to one person?

What do you feel that your employer does well at, as a company, organization, or employer?Describe one thing that company did on your proposal?Does company hears your issues? How does company helps with your issues?What do you feel that your employer needs to improve on the most, as a company, organization, or employer?Would you recommend this company to your friends?Do you see yourself in this company in the future?What’s your turnover rate? How many people left the company last year and why?

After the first time you use the Create/Update Chargebee Customer option to update a particular Chargebee Customer, updating it thereafter overwrites the customer record in Chargebee with the new inputs from the Salesforce account even if it is more recent than that in the Salesforce account.

It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888.

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Friends and foes alike neither admire nor fear President Trump’s leadership

The challenges before us—the worst public health crisis in a century, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the worst period of global upheaval in a generation, the urgent global crisis posed by climate change, the intolerable racial injustice that still stains the fabric of our nation—will test America’s character like never before.

a more perfect union

So how should we think about federalism in the ageof coronavirus? The answer is to emphasize theimportance of building social solidarity — the beliefin a shared fate for all Americans that transcendsstate or regional identities

institutional antagonism willprevent the concentration of power, encouragesindividualist mentalities that lead to self-interestedactions and erode national unity.

“We’re changing federalism from the idea of shared expertise in different policy areas into partisan stakes in the ground that are meant to obstruct opponents,” Robertson says.

“The coronavirus response is actually sort of a perfect measuring stick of our transition to our contemporary, very polarized model of federalism.”

He has threatened to withhold federal funds from school districts that don’t open for in-person instruction.

He has threatened to withhold federal funds from school districts that don’t open for in-person instruction.

It could create incentives for action by conditioning a portion of funds going to states in any future relief packages on states’ adherence to the measures

Lacking strong federal leadership to guide a uniform response, the United States quickly fulfilled the World Health Organization’s prediction that it would become the new epicenter of Covid-19.

subject to constitutionally protected individual rights such as due process, equal protection, and freedom of travel and association

Strong, decisive national action is therefore imperative.

Whichever tools you use, ensure your internal team and stakeholders are in agreement, and know how to use them effectively.

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The advantages of this plan are, greater security against fire & infection; tranquillity & comfort to the Professors, and their families thus insulated; retirement to the Students, and the admission of enlargement to any degree to which the institution may extend in future times.

Some 15% of Canadians say no party leader is fit to be prime minister.