Claire Reckless

Why Does Platform Engineering So Often End In FAILURE? |
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07.08.2025 07:33 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.

Psychological safety REQUIRES:

* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down

13.03.2025 23:06 — 👍 268    🔁 72    💬 8    📌 6

A key lesson I’ve learned as a manager is situational leadership. Managing everyone the same doesn’t work.

People vary in skill and motivation for tasks. High skill, high will workers need empowerment, while low skill, low will workers need clear direction and guidance.

Adapt your approach.

30.11.2024 17:15 — 👍 180    🔁 25    💬 8    📌 3

A flow chart titled: Should I say resources? Do you mean people? If yes, say people If no Do you mean people and things? If yes say People and the things If no Do you mean things? If yes, say the things

Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.

20.11.2024 12:56 — 👍 242    🔁 94    💬 15    📌 19

The Betterment Metric - Angie Jones A simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

My latest blog post covers how a simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?

angiejones.tech/the-betterme...

22.11.2024 16:54 — 👍 289    🔁 99    💬 51    📌 40

If you aren’t following @robbowley.net you should be !!

16.11.2024 12:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Next read lined up !

05.11.2024 07:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alright, I did it, I made a starter pack! Am I doing bluesky right yet?

go.bsky.app/JdHEiGM

30.10.2024 18:13 — 👍 129    🔁 46    💬 40    📌 10

Team TOPOLOGIES explained to Ted LASSO TLDR; Every time I need to explain the 4 types of teams from Team Topologies to someone, I end up making an analogy to the different…

Team TOPOLOGIES explained to Ted LASSO

medium.com/@tpierrain/t...

02.11.2024 18:24 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers

Why AI replacing juniors is bad for senior devs:

22.10.2024 14:09 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The vast majority of your problems can be solved with boring, common technologies.

Techies get carried away with shiny new tech. The next greatest thing comes along, and the suggestions are to use it for the new project or platform.

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22.10.2024 07:42 — 👍 58    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 6

Thanks for this Rob, so many great people to follow !

20.10.2024 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0