What makes a strategy great

What makes a strategy great
29 minutes by Jason Cohen

Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.

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Creating an integrated business and technology strategy
37 minutes by Sarah Taraporewalla

A framework for integrating technology and business strategy based on ten common strategic directions.

Sense of Belonging and Software Teams
8 minutes

I’ve been reading about role-based belonging. This is a paper I’ve come back to several times in the last few months. I especially like this very clear first paragraph: As individuals engage with roles—whether starting a new job, entering a new friendship network, or declaring a new major—they ask whether they belong in that specific role.

How To Create Compound Efficiencies In Engineering
7 minutes

Improvements in your engineering team's workflow don't occur independent of each other.

Hire for Floors, not Ceilings
2 minutes by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

When you’re hiring, try not to get caught in the trap of evaluating candidates based on their best possible performance. Look instead for consistency: reliable results in variable conditions, the ability to deliver predictably with consistent quality, and so forth.

The farther you go up the ladder, the less it’s about your technical skills
5 minutes by Jim Grey

It’s not that technical skills aren’t important, but that soft skills are a lot more important.

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