Geoff Mazeroff

Dates covered: June 11-17, 2018 (week 24 of 52)

Business

• Learnings over the Years of Businessing (via Software Lead Weekly)

Career

• Why Managers Shouldn’t Have the Final Say in Performance Reviews (via Harvard Business Review)
• Performance Reviews Are a Waste of Time (via The Software Mentor)
• Software Rockstars? Really? (via The Software Mentor)

Communication

• How to Give a Webinar Presentation (via Harvard Business Review)

Culture

• What Managers Can Do to Keep Women in Engineering (via Harvard Business Review)
• Your Flex Work Culture Doesn’t Help Employees If It Hurts Their Careers (via Harvard Business Review)
• Tea and Tech Culture (via Software Lead Weekly)

Leadership

• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
• How to Lead When You’re Feeling Afraid (via Harvard Business Review)
• To Retain New Hires, Make Sure You Meet with Them in Their First Week (via Harvard Business Review)

Process

• Why the Secret to Success is Setting the Right Goals (via TED)
• Overscheduling Your Days Can Wreck Your Productivity (via Lifehacker)
• Before Automating Your Company’s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them (via Harvard Business Review)
• Drowning in Work? Here’s How to Ask a Colleague for Help. (figure out what you actually need, ask for it clearly, accept what you’re offered, say thank you) (via Harvard Business Review)
• Engineering Process Is Overvalued (via Software Lead Weekly)
• The human scalability of “DevOps” (via Software Lead Weekly)

Psychology

• How to Become More Self-Aware (via Harvard Business Review)

Software development

• Is Velocity Broken? (via Paul Rayner)
• .NET Rocks! 1554: Antifragility in Software Architecture with Barry O’Reilly (via .NET Rocks!)

Technology

• .NET Rocks! 1553: Microsoft Buys GitHub with Phil Haack (via .NET Rocks!)