Dates covered: March 2-8, 2015 (week 10 of 52)
Career
- The Surprising Benefits (and Pitfalls) of Being a “Jack of All Trades” (via Lifehacker)
- Worry About Keeping Your Next Job, Not Your Current One (via Lifehacker)
- How to Answer “Why Do You Want to Work at This Company?” (via Lifehacker)
- Work yourself out of your job to accelerate your career (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Five Professional “Weaknesses” You can Reframe to Your Advantage (via Lifehacker)
Culture
- Lightning Talks: How to Bring Your Organization Closer in 5 Minutes (via Software Lead Weekly)
- You Should Run Your Startup Like a Cult: Here’s How (via Software Lead Weekly)
- 11 Company Culture Hacks for Happy Employees and Customers (via Software Lead Weekly)
- A Short Guide (and Resources) for Introverted Founders (via Software Lead Weekly)
General interest
Management
- Hiring Programmers (via Phillip Andreason)
- Less Is More When It Comes to Team Size (via Pluralsight Blog)
- Performance Reviews Simplified (via Erik Dietrich)
- On Collective Leadership (via Software Lead Weekly)
Motivation
- “You Have to Be Bored.” (via Lifehacker)
- Three Tell-Tale Signs You’ve Found What Truly Motivates You (via Lifehacker)
Productivity
- Work through the Weekend When It’s Important Work, Not Busy Work (via Lifehacker)
- Streamline Productivity with the “Minimum Effective Dose” for Tasks (via Lifehacker)
- Indecision and Decision (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software development
- The things you need to know to do web development (via Greg Jorgensen)
- Why Scrum is designed for misuse. (via Brendan Enrick)
- The 7 Rules for Writing Software That Won’t Die When You Do (via Phillip Andreason)
- Iteration Management – Post 5 – Estimates (via Jon Kruger)
- Iteration Management – Post 6 – Comparing Estimation Methods (via Jon Kruger)
- .NET Rocks! 1108: Mobile Testing Strategies with Karen Johnson (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1109: Secure Account Management with Troy Hunt (via .NET Rocks!)
- The Perils of Estimation (via Jim Holmes)
Software
- .NET Rocks! 1107 ASP.NET in 2015 with Mads Kristensen (via .NET Rocks!)
- Fixie – A Convention-based .NET Testing Framework (via The Morning Brew)
- Bootstrap 3
Technology
- Hitting a New Wall (via MSDN Magazine, March 2015)