David Edgar's website

Sunday, 20 October 2024

🔖 Design Docs at Google

A look at how (I assume some parts of) Google does design documents for their projects

Saturday, 19 October 2024

🔖 How to Send Progress Updates

Tips on communicating progress via updates to people who are interested or need to know

🔖 Engage your audience by getting to the point, using story structure, and forcing specificity

Some tips on communication. Basically, be concise, get to the point, create structure.

Monday, 26 August 2024

🔖 No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and no Meetings Without an Agenda

I kind of always worry a little bit about people with bright line restrictions on meetings, like, maybe you're just an introvert who doesn't understand that talking to people is actually the first, second, and third most important tasks on your JD. Still, there is a bit here

Sunday, 05 May 2024

🔖 How to send progress updates

🔖 Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility

All unhappy agile teams are alike. Each happy agile team is happy in its own way

🔖 Conway’s Law in Team Topolgies: Did you really get it?

🔖 Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time

Being better about asking for the right thing to the right person at the right time

🔖 The unwritten laws of engineering at Stedi

🔖 The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication

At the risk of it including a line like "Being a massive sook arsehole is a-ok."

🔖 GitLab Handbook: How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work

Wednesday, 06 March 2024

🔖 How To Be A Good Listener

Advice on how to listen to people. I don't want to say "effectively" because that sounds reductive and transactional. But how to listen with purpose to actually make connections with people . In summary:

  1. Don't negate what they are saying
  2. Don't make it about yourself
  3. Don't walk down, particularly to children
  4. Ask questions

Some of what she says I summarised a bit; a couple of the points were basically "Don't make it abut yourself" but from different angles.