In this one-on-one, Michael and Ellie discuss the importance of taking a break. Whether you're just feeling stressed, or you're fully burnt out, stopping to recharge is crucial for your health and performance. We talk about music, meditation, the pomodoro technique, and signs that it's time to take (in)action or get help when you really need it.

Michael and Ellie are the hosts of the Warewolves podcast. Michael is a Product Manager and can be found at https://wight.ink. Ellie is a Senior Frontend Engineer and can be found at https://ellie.codes.

Are you preparing for your next promotion? In this episode we're joined by Brooks to talk about strategies and pitfalls when planning that next career move. As always we take a look at the management perspective too, and discuss ways of supporting your direct reports in their own advancements.

Brooks Burton is the VP of Engagement at Phase2 Technology. You can find him on LinkedIn.

About the hosts:

Michael is a Product Manager and can be found at wight.ink.

Ellie is a Senior Frontend Engineer and can be found at ellie.codes.

Reference links:

Forbes

Summer Pils

In this one-on-one, Michael and Ellie talk about how and why our Peopleware group was started, the different levels that Peopleware discussion groups can exist, how others can start their own, and tips for keeping it open and inclusive.

Michael and Ellie are the hosts of the Warewolves podcast. Michael is a Product Manager and can be found at https://wight.ink. Ellie is a Senior Frontend Engineer and can be found at https://ellie.codes.

Relevant Links:

Mighty Networks

Discord

Slack

In this one-on-one, Michael and Ellie talk about the qualms of onboarding onto a new team, some stories about being thrown into fires, how Product Managers and Engineers differ in their onboarding processes and how to make it easier (for all parties).

Michael and Ellie are the hosts of the Warewolves podcast. Michael is a Senior Product Manager and Ellie is a Senior Frontend Engineer.

Relevant Links

MermaidJS

VSCode Live Share Extension

In this episode, we discussed being remote vs. working in offices. Some of the topics we covered are how we connect through body language and why that might be more effective in a colocated setting, how open offices affect our ability to focus on work, some of the conveniences of being remote, and whether or not partially remote teams can work.

More about Joe Still: Joe is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Phase2 Technology. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephstilljr/.

References

The Scrum Book

Scrum PLOP Patterns

Allen Curve

Kingman Formula

Communication Options

Never Split the Difference Summary

Deep Work

VSCode Live Share Extension

In this episode, we discussed how teams can achieve psychological safety and the negative impacts of not having that safety. Slight language warning from ~27:00 to ~30:00.

More about Lauren: She is a Senior Developer at Phase2 Technology. You can find her pretty much anywhere with the username labbydev, including Twitter (@labbydev). Her personal website is https://labby.dev/.

Have you ever wondered how your team's productivity relates to their working relationships? Today we talk to Mike "Critter" Crittenden about Team Jelling, and how to improve cohesion in teams.

More about Critter: Mike is a co-host of the podcast We Should Be Working. He muses daily at critter.blog. He's currently working as an Engineering Manager at Wayfair.