Dominica DeGrandis on Her Book Making Work Visible

Published: May 21, 2018, midnight

b'In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dominica DeGrandis about time thieves, making work visible, the important themes from the DevOps Enterprise Summit and ways to be more productive. \\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\n\\u2022\\tIf we can understand the thieves of time better we can get some time back from our overburdened work-life\\n\\u2022\\tHaving too much work in progress is the mother of all the other thieves of time\\n\\u2022\\tMuch of our work is based on arbitrary rather than real due dates\\n\\u2022\\tMost daily stand up events take too long because of the focus on status - Instead of talking about what people are doing rather talk about what\\u2019s blocking them\\n\\u2022\\tDifferent type of works needs different time focus \\u2013 managers vs makers \\n\\u2022\\tThe value of having a regular cadence for meetings and for \\u201cDo Not Disturb\\u201d time\\n\\u2022\\tThe danger, and harm, that comes about from believing there are \\u201cbest\\u201d practices which can be applied in complex or complicated domains\\n\\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2x1ZVFJ\\n\\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\\n\\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2x1ZVFJ'