Terry Brown (he/him)

Director of Engineering @Healx (prev: @gsk, @tombola). Thoughts on culture, technology, high performing teams, mental health, LGBT+. Love a nice cuppa. He/him.

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

@t_blom The political air cover would indeed need to be huge. Having worked on huge enterprise, where policy and process are introduced routinely to reduce risk, and innovation was only allowable within a small set of rigid criteria, I’d love to see it, but buy in would need to be huge

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

@unclebobmartin Having been in a clojure house, with people who'd been working it professionally for years (I learned it as a manager to better support/understand the teams), I routinely found it slower and more error prone than any other environment I've worked in. The local DX was terrible.

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

It's no secret there's a growing crisis within engineering management. Our standards for managers have skyrocketed, which is good, but our expectations may verge on the impossible. (Create emotional safety, ✅ Provide emotional support and stability through a global pandemic,❌)

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Huzzah!! As requested by many, many people, the recording of my #fintechdevcon talk ("Compliance & Regulatory Standards Are NOT Incompatible With Modern Development Best Practices") is now online!! 😍

https://t.co/49iF9gNu7Y (page down, it's the first talk after "Keynotes")

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

@skytv don't think I've ever found signing up to give a company harder! Setting up Sky Stream, and failed multiple times. Tried registering a https://t.co/bK0iawgQOj account in the hopes of bypassing, and got a DNS error.

'Help' on the website is not useful :(

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

I have been thinking a lot about why we go into management roles, and how that informs our blind spots once we do. 🤔

I'm curious; which, if any, of these most closely resembles your primary motivation for becoming a manager. (None are inherently "better" reasons, IMO)

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

@mipsytipsy Not directly covered, but phases for me:
- I didn’t want to (pushed)
- seeing as I’m doing it I might as well get paid (the early years)
- I’m enjoying helping (later years)

I think a desire to work with, and help the humans around us is important to good management?

[Amy Edmondson @AmyCEdmondson]

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#IntelligentFailure

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

@JonMcNestrie @Garmin @Strava @SpotifyUK @Apple I’m loving the Apple Watch ultra. I found the standard frustrated me with battery life, but the ultra has been a dream

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

@engineering_bae There are days where it feels worthless, and I love those. Most days are incredibly hard, reactive while planning, and thinking on my feet. I still love those days, but they can be exhausting. So much harder than my IC career, but I wouldn’t change it

[Vicki Elcock @VickiElcock]

We care about our patients and the small thinks make a difference that we all take for granted like having lunch in the fresh air Beren is amazing and doccla will monitor her results to aid recovery ♥️@MichelleFlint99 @DocclaUK

[Becky (she/her) @CuriousBecks]

Hey #PsychologicalSafety community I am pulling together a visual timeline of psych safety

Have I missed anything?

@tom_geraghty @AmyCEdmondson @WorkFearlessly

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

We can learn a lot from North East & North Cumbria integrated care system @NENC_NHS & their approach to improvement. Their goal isn't to "be the best" but to "be the best at getting better". This helps create a shared mission to build capability for change & to always keep improving. Graphic by @quotedvisually. Inspiration from @samanthallen & @annielaverty.

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

Superb!

[Google Cloud Tech @GoogleCloudTech]

Here at Google Cloud, we think about software supply chain security... a little differently.

Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/ERieaqSMKV

[Sam Crome @Mr_Crome]

I've been studying teams for nearly a year - reading research, books, speaking to leaders and trying things out with my own teams.

Here are 10 key features of high-performing teams:

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

Empathy is the heartbeat of leadership. Seven ways to practice it:
1) Show genuine care & concern
2) Be present
3) Ask questions
4) Listen to understand
5) Be curious, not judgemental
6) Connect through emotion
7) Act with compassion
Thank you @DannyLangloss @Brilliant_Teams

[Tara Donnelly @tara_donnelly1]

These are a must read! The latest contains lots of useful information including links to some terrific videos made by virtual ward sites across the country. Pithy & a great resource - open to all - do sign up now if you are part of the #DigitalHomeCare and #VirtualWards movement.

[Terry Brown (he/him) @Terry_Brown]

Because monoliths are still cool…

[Sahn Lam @sahnlam]

Stack Overflow is a multi-tenant monolithic application serving 2 billion monthly page views across 200 sites.

Here are some amazing stats:

[Paul Stack @stack72]

I will definitely start giving talks about @thesysteminit later this year when we open source it! :)