@GraemeLind

Director of Engineering 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

 Glasgow, Scotland
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Joined April 2012
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Was asked what I don’t like about Scrum. Not much, really. Just: • Backlogs • Sprints • Daily Scrums • Sprint Reviews • POs • SMs • Commitments • Accountabilities • Standardization on an inflexible framework • Certs Just little stuff like that. The rest is okay.
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Thiago Ghisi
@thiagoghisi11 Apr 2022
I’m not a fan of giving experienced Staff engineers coding interviews. Why? If you’ve made it to this level, either you can code well, or you’ve learned to solve technical problems using your other muscles. The outcomes are what matters. Loved this passage from @whereistanya
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The early stages of the SW career phase can be so fixated on coding, which really is a small part of what it takes to be an Engineer. Seniority in Engineering requires the soft skills to understand ‘why’ before coding…
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz10 Apr 2022
What many sw engineers don't realize: The majority of jobs do not hire you to write the highest quality code or produce the cleanest architecture. They hire you to solve their business problems very efficiently. Sometimes this means high-quality code. Sometimes not at all.
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Really interesting thoughts from @Lethain on dealing with the ambiguity of senior and leadership roles in Engineering. Defining your personal mission is one of the biggest challenges when transitioning into a new leadership role - from an IC role or leadership in another org.
Thiago Ghisi
@thiagoghisi9 Apr 2022
Yet another great interview passage, this time from @Lethain on: The Core Challenge of Engineering Leadership Roles & The Three Most Common Leadership Pitfalls of Staff+ and Director+ People. <Link at the end> 🧵🧵🧵
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Pat Kua@patkua27 Mar 2022
🔥Hot off the press: Issue #137 of Level Up, a curated newsletter for leaders in tech #cto #vpeng #engmanager #techlead w/content from @kinlane @lilyhnewman @firstround @FosterLearning @graemelind & more! See levelup.patkua.com/archive/1…
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A fantastic review of the BBC’s serverless web platform, WebCore, after a year of operation - by⁩ Johnathan Ishmael (@Mirdin) link.medium.com/E4s0SUepTob
Platform-as-a-strategy: For the past 2 years I’ve been a part of the BBC’s web tech strategy to build a platform and shared capabilities. This is a post about lessons I’ve learned on the link between the shape of the organisation and the shape of the tech medium.com/bbc-design-engine…
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Would you like to do a postgraduate apprenticeship in my department, working on our design system and our back-end business layer platform? careershub.bbc.co.uk/members…
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Our BDD series books (Discovery & Formulation) will be available on Kindle for £0.99/€0.99/$0.99 each this weekend. The sale starts on Saturday morning (European time) and will run until the end of the weekend. Bddbooks.com @gasparnagy
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"While I’m not here to argue that coding interviews are entirely broken (though others have), I strongly believe that they have no place when interviewing senior engineers." tinyurl.com/yxckj4je
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Missing campus? Let’s build it ⛏ This Friday we are launching #CraftUofG – a Minecraft server which will be free for all @uofglasgow students & staff to join 👏 The plan is to build the Gilmorehill Campus inside the game! Find out more & sign-up ➡️ bit.ly/CraftUofG
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Backlog refinement (not "grooming") is an ongoing process, not a meeting. Put a Story Map on the [perhaps virtual] wall and look at it occasionally. When something new comes along, put it on the wall in an appropriate place. If you need a discussion, discuss right then.
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Faye Thompson@AgileFaye12 Aug 2020
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Shreyas Doshi
@shreyas12 Jul 2020
Why do smart product people & teams often build products with mediocre or no impact? A cautionary thread of biases and fallacies we encounter when building products👇🏾 1/10
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Domenico@AvatarDomy11 Apr 2020
The greatest shot in television ever
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Henry Coles@_pitest20 Feb 2020
Another day as a professional developer. I'll be balancing some binary trees, implementing bubble sort and FizzBuzz a few times, then I'll probably knock out a couple of quick fibonacci implementations. All without using google or any libraries of course.
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Liam Dutton@liamdutton16 Jan 2020
**THREAD** The Daily Express has published an appalling, irresponsible and misleading weather article, giving the impression that ‘150mph winds’ will hit the UK this weekend. Let me show you, with evidence, why this couldn't be further from the truth.
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#Brexit A View from Germany
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Every time I make myself write out We are doing _____ Because we see the problem of _____ We know it's a problem because _____ If we don't fix it, we'll see _____ We'll know we've fixed it when we get _____ the rest of the conversation/project/doc goes SO much easier.
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Neil Killick@neil_killick16 Aug 2019
THIS is the mindset shift needed to effectively use slicing to deliver value early and often. Describe and sequence your work in such a way that those small changes result in something useful rather than only x% of something useful.
Edie Beer@ediebeer15 Aug 2019
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