Tag: productivity
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AI is terrible at shift-left
Start with good content, get better content I’ve seen enough generative AI used to help marketing now that my theory is: you should only use it if you’re already good at making whatever “the content” or strategy is. The AI will help you make it better, or more broadly consumable. It will do a terrible…
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Digital transformation strategies focus on reducing costs, upskilling – Highlights from Macroeconomic Outlook, Business Trends – ”Digital transformation focuses on employee productivity and automation. Nearly 44% of respondents either have a formal digital transformation strategy (32%) or are planning to develop one (11%). The primary drivers for adopting a digital transformation strategy are improving efficiency…
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From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models for the Future – ”Nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect”
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My favorite PaaS
This is just my, personal take on what Tanzu is, not an official statement. But I think it’s a pretty good one! :) For a more in-depth look, check out Dekel’s recent videos. Also, if you like the full on corporate sheen take, take a look at the Tanzu Platform Solution brief. Wastebook “the ontological…
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White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Atlantic – “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+…
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What junior/senior developers and CTOs need to know about internal developer platforms
This is from last Fall at the SHIFT conference, but it still holds up: Relative to your interests Why Are Pants So Big (Again)? – tl;dr: you can wear comfortable jeans again. // “There’s constancy, I thought, and then there’s becoming a relic of yourself” And: “If you zoom out far enough, all the paroxysms…
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How to avoid working too much
Surviving and Thriving in a BigCo If you work in a large organization, you’ll like this new video series I did with O’Reilly. Check out the intro above, and here’s the topics covered: Cultivate your Style and Character. How does a BigCo Work? Mentors are Nice, Champions are Better. Asking Questions Leads to Homework for…
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When you hear the word “input,” run – avoiding unpaid work at work
Thriving in a BigCo: Avoiding homework, and assigning homework I’m working on a video series with O’Reilly based on my working and thriving in a BigCo talks. Here’s a little storyboarding I did on one topic to avoid having too much work that’s not part of your job, a concept I call “homework.” The young…
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Salesforce CEO takes another bold stand on remote work – Another chapter in the no one knows WTF on WFH deal saga: “For my people that’s my message. They need to mix in person and remote together. Our engineers are extremely productive at home. We have lots of people who are extremely productive at home.…
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The next generation of developer productivity – O’Reilly – As ever nowadays, developer productivity is the top problem. Also, full CI/CD (or just good pipeline automation) is still hovering around 50% as it has been for a decade or more: “Over half of the respondents (51%) said that their organizations are using self-service deployment pipelines…
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Days Notes, August, 2023
I’ve been off the publishing grid for awhile, even off the consuming the Internet grid. This is a mix of partial vacation, taking care of some family things, an obsession with D&D, and the first break in my workaholic nature for…20…even 30 years? It is time for a few new habits, rather than swirling around…
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If you’re so smart, why are we all still so dumb?
We’re back from a three day weekend in London for our anniversary. I tried very hard to eliminate all “productivity,” so I have very little to say today. I did want to ADVERTISE for a thing I have tomorrow. So I’ve gathered up some waste book for you today. Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after…
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Unleash developer productivity with generative AI, McKinsey survey – Their survey says it’s good in four areas: Expediting manual and repetitive work, Jump-starting the first draft of new code, Accelerating updates to existing code, Increasing developers’ ability to tackle new challenges.
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I don’t need to “do less to do more.” I just need to do less.
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2023-06-05 day note
I had two recordings today. One on the platform maturity model draft, a paper I got the chance to review early on. There’s a live stream of it up, and I’ll lightly edit it down to a podcast episode later this week. I also did a small panel (with two other people) talking about how…
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from tasty broth to jiggly chicken slime in the fridge
That’s a chart from our recent State of Kubernetes survey that I’ll probably use a lot this year. Here’s my commentary on it from a blog post this week: In our surveys, I’ve been using the software release cycle question to represent developer benefits. For the most part, the faster developers can release software, the…
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Gartner Says Layoffs May Ultimately Harm Shareholder Returns – After firing people to lower costs, the remaining staff have to do more work, either demanding more pay of getting demoralized and seeking another job. Also, if you want to grow revenue, you’ll need more staff, so you’ll hire contractors, and eventually want to hire back…
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Deep Work summarized by Phil Gyford
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In-Office vs. Remote: Tackling the Productivity Puzzle in a World of Waste
Re: Iron Law of Remote Work Last time, I suggested that bosses generally want in-office people, and workers want to work from home. This is regardless of any data, studies, or “reality.” It’s pure human preference. One of you asked me if this was because of an increase in productivity or a decrease. I took…