The Software Gardening Manifesto - A copy

2023-07-01 Software-Craftsmanship Culture Thoughts

In case the Software Gardening Manifesto is down or otherwise not available, here is a copy of it …

SOFTWARE GARDENING MANIFESTO

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The Ideal Team Player - HHS vs. DAC

2023-02-10 Management Books Culture Remote Thoughts

Patrick Lencioni (obviously) wrote The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

Cover of the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Cover of the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Source: Wikipedia

In that ...

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Happy new year - I am tooting now ...

2023-01-01 Personal Culture Nerdy Politics Privacy TEDN Thoughts Tips & Tricks

Mastodon logo with the text 'I am moving to the FerdiVerse, follow @tedn@micro.blog'
Mastodon logo with the text 'I am moving to the FerdiVerse, follow @tedn@micro.blog' — Photo: Roland Tritsch

Happy new year to ya all!!!

What a ...

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Emacs Pair Programming - Innovation-Week Q2/2022

2022-05-01 Software-Craftsmanship Community Culture Emacs Innovation Lisp Nerdy Remote Tips & Tricks

We (at Community) just had another Innovation-Week. I was actually working on generating pact-files from frontend code and then generating openapi ...

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What is better than Remote-First 1.0? Remote-First 2.0!

2021-07-04 Management Culture Remote Thoughts

Two weeks ago I got my second jab. I am fully vaccinated now. I am now in Germany to see my parents for the first time in 12 month.

Yes: It is finally ...

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Distances - Know them. Manage them.

2021-06-01 Management Culture Remote Thoughts

Building and managing remote-first organizations means that you also need to understand (and manage) distances!

To develop your ability to understand ...

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The first Summit/Hack-a-thon @ Community

2021-02-12 Management Community Culture Remote

As people know … I am big fan of building and maintain this balance between Product and Engineering where …

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What's a Staff Director?

2020-08-31 Management Thoughts Culture

Community is growing fast.

More business. More customers. More people. More money. More (necessary) complexity (software and people).

Roland silhouetted on a coastal cliff overlooking the ocean
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The TEDN Van

2020-04-14 Personal TEDN Culture

Here we go again: There is good news and bad news!!!

The good news is that the TEDN Mobile Office project is making good progress!

TEDN Mobile Office
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Roland ... what's in a name

2020-04-13 Personal Culture Thoughts

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