On Technical Excellence

I was just thinking about this topic this morning. There’s COVID-19, anxiety on what’s been happening, bills to pay; so sure, add this into the mix. In particular, I’m thinking about how I can’t eloquently put to words or can’t stress enough the importance of technical excellence. In my head, I’m just thinking that if you want us to work fast and produce-produce-produce, what’s going to make us faster is if we actually know what we’re doing and if we’re good at what we’re doing. (I sometimes feel a slight cringe when I use that overused word, “actually”.)

Anyways, just listing out here some of this morning’s reads which I’ll probably revisit when I’m feeling more energized:

• This 2016 talk on What Does Tech Excellence Look Like by Martin Fowler
• This fairly recent blog post On the Importance of Technical Excellence by Max Deviant
• This page consolidating Technical Excellence Talks by Allison Pollard. The slides are there though I wish I can find a corresponding video of the talk.
• After having followed @allison_pollard, I found an interesting link she shared on Team Improvement: Management Desires vs Team Reality.
• Then one link led to another, and I found Failure– Is it a Matter of When? by Barry O’Reilly.
• And this might come in handy — How Should Agile Teams Deal with Leaders Who Won’t Listen by Scott Dunn