Workplace management

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1. atomicnatureJan 2024
   Essay: Rickover's "Doing a job" - https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

   Books:

   - Rickover's "The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering"

   - Taichi Ohno's "WorkPlace Management"

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2. radiatorOct 2023
   Why don't you read some books?

   - Out of the crisis and The new economics, Deming

   - Workplace Management and Toyota Production System, Ohno

   - Peopleware, DeMarco & Lister

   - Managing the professional service firm, Meister (delegation)

   - Leadership Handbook, US Army

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3. throwawaaarrghFeb 2023
   "Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position" and "Out of the Crisis" - W. E. Deming

   "Workplace Management" - Taiichi Ohno

   "Lean Six Sigma" - Jeffrey Ries

   But aside from these "management philosophies", there's also standard industry/role practices that companies don't require their employees to implement, and when they do it's only enough to say they technically did it. Often the employees don't even know the standards exist. It's embarrassing.

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4. belfalasJan 2023
   Many more beyond this but these are my for sures.

   People / Soft Skills:

   * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

   * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg

   * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

   * Nurtured by Love - Shinici Suzuki

   * Turn the Ship Around! - David Marquet

   * Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss

   http://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/

   http://dhemery.com/articles/managing_yourself_through_change...

   Macro Skills:

   * Toyota Production System - Taiichii Ohno

   * Workplace Management - Taiichii Ohno

   * Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows

   * Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge

   Agile:

   * Extreme Programming, Explained (2nd ed.) - Kent Beck (the annotated bibliography is a goldmine)

   * Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick

   Programming:

   * Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck

   * Test-Driven Development, By Example - Kent Beck

   * Refactoring (both editions) - Martin Fowler

   * Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky

   * Practical Object Oriented Design - Sandi Metz

   * Functional Programming in Scala - Chiusano & Bjarnason

   * Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests - Freeman & Pryce ("The Goose Book")

   * Modern Java in Action - Raoul-Gabriel Urma

   * Java Concurrency in Practice - Brian Goetz

   * Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava

   Architecture:

   * Righting Software - Juval Lowy

   * Release It! - Michael Nygard

   * Site Reliability Engineering - Beyer, et al. ("The SRE Book”)

   * Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans

   * Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison and Mia Slay

   * Fun with a Pencil - Andrew Loomis

   Design:

   * All books by Edward Tufte, especially “The visual display of quantitative information”

   * The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst

   * Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

   * Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

   * Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander

   * The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander

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5. no_identdFeb 2018
   Taiichi Ohno - Workplace Management (1988).

   BUT: Get the 2007 retranslation instead, the original translation is responsible for every horrible management fad since the early 90s.

   And then go read some W. Edwards Deming, and maybe some Davis Balestracci, if you can afford the latter's ridiculously expensive book.

   And start reading qualitydigest.com.

   Any production process that doesn't focus exclusively on quality and quality alone is doomed to failure. The problem is that most people have a horribly naive understanding of the word "quality". (Go try figuring out it's etymology if you don't know why I say that to get a start on figuring it out.)

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6. jdietrichMay 2018
   The tech industry is badly re-inventing processes that the rest of the world developed decades ago. Other industries have learned to deal with far more complex and serious issues of quality. If there is arrogance in our approach, it's our failure to learn from other industries; lots of people in the tech industry have heard of the Five Whys, but very few have actually read Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management, W. Edwards Deming's Out Of The Crisis or Walter A. Shewhart's Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product.

   I frequently recommend this lecture on the Piper Alpha disaster, a fire on an offshore oil rig that killed 167 men. It eloquently summarises the findings of the Cullen Enquiry, a six month study of exactly why the disaster happened and what could be done to improve safety in the offshore industry. The enquiry found a complex and interconnected set of factors encompassing process, training, culture and design. It is densely packed with lessons that can be applied to our industry, not least of which is the idea of conducting intensive and systematic inquiries into major failures.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9h8MKG88_U

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