I loved this podcast: @mik_kersten interviews Dr. @gail_murphy, discussing their decades-long research on dev productivity.

Favorite phrase: “better frame of dev productivity (and knowledge work) is on how we make decisions.”

How utterly wonderful!!

overcast.fm/+XEReQPegs
@mik_kersten @gail_murphy It was a startling thing to hear, as I was talking with @girba, and he mentioned the same thing.

What are the best papers that describe the nature of decision making, and how might inform great decision making (frequent, fast feedback, high levels of exploration, safe?)

vs…
@mik_kersten @gail_murphy …vs environments not conducive to great decisions (slow feedback, infrequent, dangerous, tightly coupled and highly interdependent, no one able to make decisions independently)

I feel like I can viscerally describe from experience what both those extremes feel like…
@mik_kersten @gail_murphy …are there any papers you could recommend I read?

Many thanks, and catch y’all soon!!!

Cc’ing @nicolefv, as I suspect she might be interested, too!

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20 Feb
Many of you have seen the famous Westrum Organizational Typology model, so prominently featured in State of DevOps Research, Accelerate, DevOps Handbook, etc.

This model was created Dr. Ron Westrum, a widely-cited sociologist who studied the impact of culture on safety
Thanks to Dr. @nicolefv, I was able to interview him for an upcoming episode of the Idealcast! 🤯

It was a very heady experience, and while preparing to interview him, I was startled to discover how much work he's done in healthcare, aviation, spaceflight, but also innovation.
@nicolefv I've read 4+ of his papers, so I thought I was familiar with his work. (Here's one paper: researchgate.net/publication/26…)

I was startled to learn he has also studied in depth what enables innovation. He wrote a wonderful book "Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake"
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Wow, a super interesting question! Wasn’t as easy to answer quickly as I thought it would be!

TL;DR: My notes almost always go into Trello first, where I triage and organize them. I actually wrote a (Clojure) app to help manage these cards. Then all into @ScrivenerApp.. 1/N
@ScrivenerApp Almost all my notes start as Trello cards first: I use Zapier to put all starred tweets in there, I send myself emails that get turned into cards.

Each book often has one board, with lists for each broach category. I wrote app to enable moving cards w/1 keystroke, like vi.

2/N
@ScrivenerApp Last two books have had 800-1000 Trello cards, which were shuffled into 10-20 lists.

But the hard work happens in @ScrivenerApp, which is the part I think you’re talking about. Good ideas get copied into there, where they get developed or discarded.

Scrivener is awesome. 3/N
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