Five for Friday – March 8, 2024

So much cool stuff going on that I’m not even going to talk about the State of the Union speech last night. Instead – slightly less controversial, and more geeky stuff for me to share.

• I was on the Quality Bits podcast with Lina Zubyte recently. It was a lot of fun, and possibly worth checking out.
• Danny Faught has a long-overdue (but fascinating) update in his writing on Jerry Weinberg – The Rise of the Tabulators.
• In case you missed it, Agile is Dead. But it’s not. But it is. Either way, this article from Dave Thomas is spot on.
• I wrote about OKRs (aka Big Rocks) recently on the other blog. I loved this blog post – and adored the title. If culture eats strategy for breakfast, OKRs are just the cheap juice everyone gulps down first.
• Finally, once upon a time, I helped one of the first teams at Microsoft use git for their source control (after way too long using a perforce fork). I know that , msft would never have used Mercurial, but I finally understand Why Facebook doesn’t use Git. It’s probably worth noting that the recounted conversations with the git team were a lot like discussions at Microsoft. Caring about the customer goes a long way.

That last editorial aside, this week’s FfF is complete. Have a great weekend, enjoy yourselves, and stay safe (and warm).