Peopleware

Posted on 29 December 2024 in Books • Tagged with book, review, management, leadership, office, teams, productivity • 2 min read

Peopleware book cover

Our industry, technological in nature, has far more sociological problems and challenges. The tar pit swallows yet another project, not because we couldn't figure out the technical parts, but because the people-oriented aspects had the lowest priority. Peopleware is about teams and individuals, about the people of the office - the "white collars". It's about bosses and employees, leaders and managers. It's about how, why, where, and what are our daily working activities about, how every bit of surrounding environment affects them.


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Teams Topologies - Book Review

Posted on 23 March 2024 in Books • Tagged with book, review, architecture, teams, software development • 6 min read

"Teams Topologies book cover"

Conway’s Law states that systems are designed to mirror the communication structures of the organizations that create them. How, then, can we shape an organization to produce the desired system design? Let's find out "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow" by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais.


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