Recommended Reading - April Edition

Apr 30, 2024

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Over the course of the past month I’ve been keeping track of some of my favourite things that I’ve read, and decided that I would try something new by sharing them. They aren’t all communities of practice related, but they’re all (in my opinion at least) worth a read :)

Links to articles I’ve really enjoyed…

Behind the Scenes: The Companies Hosting Culture Tours

Icebreakers for remote meetings and virtual workshops

Why you need a "WTF Notebook"

‘When I wear this shirt, I feel part of a tribe’: how running club merch became a marker of cool

The Ultimate List of Books for Community Professionals

YouTube videos I’ve really enjoyed…

And a few other Substack posts I’ve really enjoyed…

Continuous Community

Community = Care

I shared community definitions a while back and I was revisiting them for a talk I created for Creator Day. One of the ideas that I settled on is that community is care. No matter what the definition of community is that we align with, I feel all communities require care…

9 months ago · 1 comment · Rosie Sherry

Quality Engineering Newsletter

How software systems fail: Part 1 - Products

Key insight Dr Richard Cook's 18 characteristics of how complex systems fail can help quality engineers identify the patterns that result in quality being lost at the product, process and people layers of organisations, allowing them to support engineering teams to build quality in. This post looks at how quality can be lost at the product layer…

9 months ago · Jit Gosai

A Product Journey

Your team needs a coach, not a hero

One of bigger changes from Individual Contributor (IC) to Manager is need to coach those in your team. Coaching takes time, a lot of it. Check you calendar (See my previous blog on coaching time) to see if you’re investing enough in your team. I was a badminton and cricket coach from a young age. My parents had wanted me to get a weekend job, my sister h…

9 months ago · 1 like · Cei

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