You Can’t Handle The Truth!
Feedback, in systems terms, is a loop that feeds outputs from a system or process back upstream as an input. [ ] The post You Can t Handle The Truth! appeared first on Matt Schouten .
Matt Schouten
Thoughts on building people, software, and systems.
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Marketing Platform Engineering
The exceptional Aurooba Ahmed has written a series of articles on her Working Notes blog covering what she calls Marketing [ ] The post Marketing Platform Engineering appeared first on Matt Schouten .
Models Matter
Once upon a time, to practice Ruby on Rails, I wrote a little web-based chore list program. I needed a [ ] The post Models Matter appeared first on Matt Schouten .
Manager README: Matt Schouten
When I joined WP Engine in 2022, I was asked to write a Manager README. This is a lightly-edited version of that README. The post Manager README: Matt Schouten appeared first on Matt Schouten .
How Do You Know?
I often ask a simple, unreasonably useful question: how do you know? I will ask that question of myself ( how [ ] The post How Do You Know? appeared first on Matt Schouten .
Why Deadlines? Why That Deadline?
It was about 10PM that Thursday night when I got back to my apartment. After a full day of work, [ ] The post Why Deadlines? Why That Deadline? appeared first on Matt Schouten .
They Know More Than I Do! (Managing an Expert Team When You Can’t Do Their Jobs)
This post began as a WordCamp US talk proposal. The core ideas are worth sharing, so I adapted it from [ ] The post They Know More Than I Do! (Managing an Expert Team When You Can’t Do Their Jobs) appeared first on Matt Schouten .
It’s Fun To Learn (About Workflow) From the YMCA
The YMCA in Marion, Iowa knows more about getting work done than many professional managers. Recently, this sign went up [ ] The post It’s Fun To Learn (About Workflow) From the YMCA appeared first on Matt Schouten .
The Involvement x Affinity Matrix
This is the third and most useful article in the series about the Involvement x Affinity framework I developed for [ ] The post The Involvement x Affinity Matrix appeared first on Matt Schouten .
Project, Task, or Role Affinity
Last article, I started writing about a framework I d created for a coaching client. The first part of the framework [ ] The post Project, Task, or Role Affinity appeared first on Matt Schouten .