🥐 GPT, Finance Terms, Barriers to Change, Visual Thinking, Rule of Three, Risk, Dimensions of Burnout: TMW #324

Hey there, welcome to the week!

Well, yes, GAI, ChatGPT, GPT-4 and everything else have been among the most-discussed topics in the community for the last week or two. We've seen members chatting about how they're considering working LLMs into their architecture, product features, and in some cases into the core of their businesses. It's an exciting time to be working on technology projects. There's also some concern - how to avoid dropping behind the curve? How to avoid being asked to include AI functionality for the sake of it? Which parts of the leadership or developer roles will it simplify, and which parts will it remove altogether, if any?

We'd love to hear your views on AI, the conversations and ideas it's prompted for you, your concerns, or anything else you think might be interesting - drop us a reply!

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Leadership, Strategy & Business

3 Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had To Become a Manager To See

I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed. Taking on manager responsibilities for the first time revealed mistakes I had made as an engineer. Here are the top three things I could only see after becoming a manager.

The Developing DevRyan Peterman

Navigating finance terms for engineers and tech leaders

2022 has been a challenging year for the tech industry. Lots of layoffs and companies going through a struggle. It is now more important…

Management MattersMite Mitreski

Barriers to Change: Fear of Failure - NOBL Academy

Any change, no matter how well planned and executed, will involve some level of risk and failure—so organizations must make it safe to fail

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Barriers to Change: Politics - NOBL Academy

Like it or not, influence, and convincing people to do what you want, is part of leading—and if you don’t do it, others will.

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Culture, People & Teams

How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings

Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself, your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.

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Coaching controversial topics – Context specific agile, product...

Controversial topics are topics that elicit strong emotions, have little or no effort invested into resolution, and unequal participation. Whether you’re a coach or manager, recognizing controversial topics is crucial because dealing with controversial topics is expensive, difficult, and painful…

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The Rule of Three

Organizational design plays a crucial role in determining an organization’s success or failure. As an organization grows, it faces numerous…

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Technology, Operations & Delivery

Tracking Software Architecture Decisions - DZone

Readers will learn a method for systematically tracking software architecture decisions through ADRs, introducing a lifecycle that will support this process.

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Talking about risk with thresholds 🔥

Imagine you encounter a fire in the woods. You’d instinctively decide to do one of two things:

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Improving CI/CD Pipelines Through Observability

CI/CD pipelines are a vital addition to any workflow but they can be further improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor, which metrics to track, and how to best visualize the collected data.

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Testing Level Dynamics: Achieving Confidence From Testing - DZone

In this article, explore shared experiences to gain insight into how teams have tried to achieve confidence from testing.

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Stress, Wellbeing & Growth

The Three Dimensions of Burnout and Their Effects on Performance

Burnout is a common problem that affects many individuals in the workplace. It is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion…

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The illusion of powerlessness: Why we have more influence than we think

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To Curb Burnout, Design Jobs to Better Match Employees’ Needs

Burnt out employees show that there are urgent problems to be addressed at the heart of any organization. But burnout is a management and organizational issue, not a physical or mental health issue, so promoting self-care won’t usually help employees recover. The chronic job stressors that cause bur…

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