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Assertion: Those who want to build good software that innovates must get this communication–learning–innovation pathway right before trying anything else.

Vaughn Vernon • Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))

For technical writers, being Agile is more about relationship-building than anything else.

Splunk Documentation Team • The Product is Docs: Writing technical documentation in a product development group

Tracking Movement, Not Just Accumulation (PKM)

medium.com

When I’m consulting with organizations on knowledge management around things like internal processes, I’m always surprised at how the first impulse aims at finally producing that perfect piece of documentation. Like how cars lose value as soon as they drive off the lot, documentation often loses its living value once it... See more

Kei x.com

Efficient Librarianship – A New Path for the Profession - Public Libraries Online

Douglas Crane publiclibrariesonline.org

"Everything we build has two outputs that could create value : what we make and what we learn. In the project model, we lose most of what we learn. When we want to work on that area again, we spend time and money relearning things we already paid for once. Or, more likely, not learning them, and making costly mistakes."

Marty Cagan

In 2004, I sat down in my boardroom with our strategy documents and started to dissect them. There were lots of familiar and comfortable terms. We had to be innovative, efficient, customer centric, web 2.0 and all that this entailed. Alas, I suspected these common “memes” were repeated in the strategy documents of other companies because I was pret... See more

Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com

I’ve figured out that the trick to a long career in it Operations management is to get enough seniority to get good things done but to keep your head low enough to avoid the political battles that make you inherently vulnerable. I have absolutely no interest in becoming one of the vps who just give each other PowerPoints all day long.

George Spafford • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Work on what matters.

Will Larson lethain.com