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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by digikata on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:58AM (#35950347)
Look at the term Theory of Constraints https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints. There is a "business fiction" book called "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt that is pretty approachable. He actually wrote a number of books at different levels of detail. Initially the concepts were addressed for manufacturing ops, but there are some fundamental similarities for scaling software teams, focusing where you produce value, and where you can create waste and misfocus if you try to keep everything/everyone busy at 100%.
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by MarkMarine on Monday May 15, 2023 @02:50PM (#35952842)
There is a book written in the style of the goal but for software, called Phoenix Project. Quite good.
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by digikata on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:17PM (#35957106)
I hadn't come across this before. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by jksmith on Monday May 15, 2023 @08:06PM (#35956237)
Agree on Goldratt, and the book his daughter wrote and recently released, called 1) "Goldratt's Rules of Flow." Theory of constraints is a rich subject with heavy roots in industrial engineering. Look for Don Reinhardt's 2) "Principles of Product Development Flow" as the gold standard. Also most all of Edwards Deming work touch on systems thinking from the industrial engineer perspective. See 3) https://deming.org/. Additionally, see books like 4) "Systems Thinking and Other Dangerous Habits," and 5) "Team Topologies" as examples of why legacy management are probably doomed if they don't learn how to scale teams via a coherent system. Finally, Senger's 6) "The Fifth Discipline" is total classic on why we need to shift our legacy management mental model to an organizational system that is continuously improving via systems.
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by jksmith on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:09PM (#35957055)
Oh yeah I didn't pimp my own book, "Agile V2 Coach's Field Manual" on amazon. Hard copy only.
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by Kon-Peki on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:11AM (#35957673)
I appreciate the book lists :)
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by digikata on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:16PM (#35957101)
Some references I recognize and some interesting new ones. Thanks!
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