SPaMCAST 665 - SPaMCAST - Organizations Culture Drive Teams, Decisions at Last Responsible Moment, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Software Process and Measurement Cast 665 features our essay on the organizational aspects that impact teams. Teams don’t live in a vacuum, so when the word organization gets used it reflects the influence of all sorts of organizations. Organizations facilitate teams to a greater or lesser extent. In the workplace, the employer’s organization will have the most significant impact on how teams form and perform but it is not the totality. Other influences can affect the structure and performance of teams. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley who will bring his Alpha and Omega of Product Development column to the podcast. In this installment, Jon and I discussed the idea of making decisions at the last responsible moment. We decided on the topic just before we began recording (just kidding). </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The SPaMCAST will be on summer holiday for the next two weeks. We will be re-releasing two favorite episodes from the archives to tide you over. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re-Read Saturday News </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week concluded our re-read of </span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3vEjr55"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Monotasking by Staffan Nöteber</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">g with the Afterword and some final thoughts. This book received my highest accolade for non-fiction books, “Very Useful.” I will have to read the book again in a year or so to see what nuances I missed. I think putting the ideas in the book to use every week drove the ideas home and exposed where I had misinterpreted the book during my first read. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this week’s experiment, I was able to move the phone further from the bed (I need to buy an alarm clock to move it outside of the room). Did I sleep more? I am not sure, but I am sure I was able not to look at the phone until I got up for the day which