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One-to-one meetings: a podcast

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Just a short note to say that I appeared on the Level-up Engineering Podcast to discuss one-to-ones for a whole forty minutes! Who’d have thought you could talk about that subject for so long. Well, it turns out that you can. We covered a lot of material, including: Why you do one-to-one meetings The ideal frequency Where to do them How to prepare and always have good material to discuss What makes bad one-to-ones How […]

Watch my talk on delegation

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Back at the beginning of March – which seems like a long, long time ago – I gave a talk at QCon London 2020 on delegation. InfoQ have kindly made the talk available for free. You can use their website to watch the talk along with an automatically advancing slideshow. You can also download the audio to listen as a podcast. Neat! In the talk, I cover: What delegation is Common delegation anti-patterns such as […]