Dates covered: October 17-23, 2016 (week 42 of 52)
Communication
Culture
- The myth of low-hanging fruit: Be careful when you use the word “easy” to describe other people’s jobs. (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Memo to Jeff Bezos: Stack-Ranking is a Destructive Employee Practice (via Software Lead Weekly)
Management
- What to remember when you’re the boss (via Software Lead Weekly)
- The Essential Guide to Building Balanced Development Teams (via Software Lead Weekly)
Process
- In Praise of Maintenance (via Freakonomics Radio)
- Freakonomics Radio Episode “In Praise of Maintenance”
Software development
- How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 (via The Software Mentor)
- Hitler at a Sprint Review (Downfall parody; some may consider NSFW)
- Stop writing bad tests. Write only the tests that you can do great. (via Software Lead Weekly)
Technology
- .NET Rocks! 1362: Serverless Architecture with Ben Godwin (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1363: Migrating Legacy Apps to Docker with Elton Stoneman (via .NET Rocks!)
- We can’t control what our intelligent machines are learning (via TED)