Kicking off a new season of podcast episodes, reviving an old Product On A Page format I used to blog on a regularly basis.

This time, it's about mental health therapy and how it correlates with agile software delivery to make it more accessible, trying to shake the stigma often associated with mental health.

What are your thoughts?

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This is the 7th PETALS Snapshot.

CHAPTERS

00:44 Leaving ASOS 03:13 Toolkits, toolkits, toolkits 05:46 Measuring team health with OKRs 07:00 Time-ranged responses in the app 10:47 Devops Notts confirmed 12:32 Final thoughts

SHOW NOTES

New Toolkits page https://petals.team/toolkits

Inside Bramble - Day 100: Website Shenanigans https://open.spotify.com/episode/4n7O2Zkg0PNIpp2whrF5lb

DevOps Notts: How you can grow your team culture with PETALS https://www.meetup.com/devops-notts/events/296379931/

Book your PETALS chat https://cal.com/jobling/petals

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This is PETALS Snapshot 6 when Si talks about the new Microsoft Form, new Snapshots page, some more fixes and some automation concepts with Slack.

00:45 Scores 01:50 DKIM Fail 02:41 New Snapshots page 03:27 Microsoft Toolkit in progress 05:33 IFTTT to Slack 07:01 Another public talk 08:11 Chipping away

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This is PETALS Snapshot 5 as we get back into the rhythm of it all.

RUNNING ORDER

00:43 Scores are up 01:04 Low serenity with bugs 03:40 Cookie banner now in place 04:32 App requirements with Brian 06:09 Wireframing in Freeform iOS 07:02 Mailing list themes 08:51 EOY reflections 10:34 First talk & memorable URLs

SHOW NOTES

https://petals.team/google-toolkit should now work https://petals.team/youtube for the Youtube channel https://petals.team/spotify for the Spotify channel https://osano.com/ for cookie banner https://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Notts/ in November

CONNECT

https://managingengineers.net/@si https://twitter.com/@si

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This is PETALS Snapshot 4, the one after a Summer break.

00:55 Scores 01:14 Low productivity 02:13 Privacy content updates 02:37 Stickers 03:33 Email automation with Zapier 04:50 Myles @ Doxy 07:56 More content & cookies 08:58 Summer is over

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The one when Si talks about launching the new Google Toolkit to the mailing list and how to bring joy to your work.

00:45 Scores 01:07 Where is your happy place? 02:27 Google Toolkit Launch 04:00 Brand tone in email 06:10 PETALS for distributed teams 08:20 Going global 09:31 Youtube thumbnails 10:16 Podcast feed 10:34 Taking a summer break

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Show Notes

This is the 2nd PETALS Snapshot, looking back since launching the website, working through some of the feedback and fitting in a chat with Brian Suda about how to use the data in different contexts.

00:13 What is PETALS? 00:32 Ratings 00:59 Since Launch 02:44 Emoji Encoding Fail 03:24 Google Suite Toolkit 04:42 Personalised Scores 06:05 Coffee with Brian 07:48 New Podcast Feed 08:59 Other Side Distractions 10:11 Credits

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Si introduces a new website and framework for improving team health and culture, using it to regularly reflect on the project as a podcast and video diary.

This week, he focuses on some of the early feedback on fonts, Netlify Deploy Previews and the amazing community providing useful suggestions.

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